"Artemis astronauts or robots in the south pole region may be able to closely study rocks from deep within the moon’s mantle ...

A photograph taken by a Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve Centennial Artist-in-Residence has been selected ...

Despite having the wrong ideas about how the Moon’s craters formed, these 19th-century astronomers created highly accurate plaster models.

The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that preserves secrets about the moon's early history, much like a ...

The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest, not just on the Moon, but in the entire Solar System. The South Pole-Aitken basin covers nearly a quarter of the Moon ...

This is a global view to show the entirety of the South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA), the largest and oldest impact crater on the Moon. For geographic context, the letters label other big craters in ...

After analyzing the sample, researchers found that the Moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side was volcanically active around 2.8 billion years ago. Another sample was even more ancient ...

"This would directly link a specific asteroid in space to its source crater on the Moon and suggests the existence of more small asteroids composed of lunar material yet to be discovered in near ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon's ...

New research published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters suggests that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken Basin, may be more circular than ...