The data pipeline from NASA’s Artemis II mission opened to full blast a few hours after looping behind the far side of the Moon on Monday night, when the Orion spacecraft established a laser ...

The dark side of the moon is no longer half the face of a friend. Using current gravity and topography data sets, the side of the body that never faces the Earth has the look of a palimpsest: the ...

Maps can communicate information in several ways. Symbol sizes and colors can describe numerical values or categorize data. Landscapes can be exaggerated to emphasize terrain and imagery can show what ...

We will never stop thinking and talking about the moon, says Matthew Shindell, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. “In cities where there is a lot of artificial light that ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during April 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.