A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high-resolution geologic map of the Moon. The map includes discoveries made in the last ten years, like an updated chronology ...

How to make sense of Pluto’s surprising geological complexity? To help understand the diversity of terrain and to piece together how Pluto’s surface has formed and evolved over time, mission ...

Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...

Images from NASA's Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail.

ONE OF THE reasons I became a geologist was the maps. I will never have enough walls in my house for all the beautiful geologic maps I'd love to hang. But these maps are also full of information about ...

Images from NASA’s Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail.

Two low-flying Piper Navajo airplanes are scheduled to begin crisscrossing north Arkansas this week measuring variations in the Earth's natural magnetic field, as well as soil and rock chemistry on ...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has released the most thorough map of the Martian surface to date. The new map of Mars, which was released Monday (July 14), was created using observations ...

RENO (AP) — Low-flying aircraft will fly over northern Nevada in the next two months to take measurements that a government agency says will help assess the region's geology and hydrology features ...