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

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

Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...

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

Two of Moon's Grand Canyons Were Created in Just 10 Minutes Due to a Powerful Impact 3.8 Billion Years Ago, Claim Researchers ...

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 ...

Following concerns expressed by some local residents I have received assurances from Persimmon themselves and from council officers, that whilst the hole may currently resemble a moon crater, it is ...

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

They used images obtained by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to carefully map the crater, the canyons, and the deposits of ejected rock that rained back down. When the impactor hit the moon, it ...

In less than a minute, a Mexico-bound air ambulance jet that departed Philadelphia on Friday night, climbed to 1,500 feet before it took a steep nosedive, crashing into the ground, and leaving an ...

If scientists can link lunar asteroids to specific craters on the moon, the space rocks could reveal more about material on the lunar surface, as well as below it. So far, 2024 PT5 is just the ...