The ever-shifting phases of Earth's moon present a wealth of targets for amateur astronomers to explore, ranging from ...

The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments) ...

How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to locate lunar pits and skylights, which are surface depressions and openings, ...

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 ...

The crater is 14 miles wide and is believed to be the youngest crater of its size on the moon's surface. Most near-Earth asteroids come from the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter's orbits.

Athena touched down on the Moon on Thursday, March 6, following a week-long journey through space. After a less-than-ideal touchdown, the lunar lander ended up on its side in a shallow crater in ...

When a NASA spacecraft passes over Shackleton Crater on the moon and peers in, it sees this: a sea of blackness and nothing more. This 13-mile-wide crater lies close to the moon’s south pole.

This picture of the moon’s south pole was taken in May by Resilience, a robotic lander operated by the Japanese company Ispace that probably crashed on the lunar surface on Thursday. Some people ...

The Moon’s biggest and most ancient crater is more circular than previously thought University of Maryland scientists uncover new insights into the moon’s early history, revealing new ...