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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the full moon shines in the night sky this weekend, take a moment to revel in its beauty and search for a large, dark plain.

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The combination of the slow rocking back and forth of the moon called libration brings into view three lunar maria or "seas" that are normally hidden around the backside - Mare Humboldtianum, M.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Berly McCoy of Short Wave about the formation of the moon's wispy atmosphere, sea lion cameras and the Perseid meteor shower. It's time now for our ...

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features such as those seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the moon's Winnipeg ...

For all of human history, the Moon’s “seas” have been nothing more than dark plains and borrowed names. But this episode explores a far bigger idea: what it would actually take to give the Moon an ...