Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen views of permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole.

The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

A SpaceX launch later this month will send a new type of lunar explorer to the moon. IM-2 ... "We'll hop down into a permanently shadowed crater." That target crater, known as Crater H, lies ...

across slammed into the far side of the moon at a speed of about 1 mile per second. As it impacted at what is now known as the Schrödinger basin crater, ejecta was shot out like missiles and in ...

Ma said that the moment he saw the craters on the moon's surface, it felt like his dream had come true, and he now aspires to visit the moon someday. “That's incredible! The teacher only wanted ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Looking up at the moon in the night sky, it’s difficult to grasp just how dramatic the topography of its surface really is.

Astronauts won't be walking on the moon until 2027, but you’ll see a ... Landing site: Near the Shackleton Crater, close to the south pole. Target landing date: March 6 or 7.

Take a road trip through Nevada to this moon-like crater used by NASA astronauts as a training ground to prepare them for the ...