Journey into the Moon’s captivating landscape with new high-magnification telescope footage revealing craters, towering mountains, vast plains, and strange formations rarely seen in such clarity.

The Apennines, Caucasus, Doerfel Mountains, and the Pyrenees all offer splendid viewing. Be sure to check out the moon in its waxing gibbous phase, two or three days past first quarter when it's ...

Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin spent over three days on the moon, conducting scientific experiments, exploring the Hadley Rille—a linear valley, in the Hadley-Apennine region—and ...

The goal of the mission was to land near one of the most majestic mountain ranges on the moon, the Apennines. This moonscape offered a wider variety of geological formations to study than previous ...

The Apennines in Central Italy: The CO2 balance for a relatively young mountain range was measured here. The photo shows a nature reserve located in the Lazio region. Groundwater flows through the ...

Rachel Chang is a travel and pop culture journalist who contributes to Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Lonely Planet, and more. Sitting on the gentle slope of the hill above the town of ...