In the most comprehensive lunar map yet, the moon looks like it’s been playing paintball. Each splash of color identifies a discrete rock or sediment formation, including craters, basins and ancient ...

The most detailed map of the Moon ever created has revealed never-before-seen craters at the lunar poles. The map is also revealing secrets about the Moon’s interior – and hinting about Mars’s ...

Large craters cover more of the moon’s surface on its nearside than its farside, according to new maps from NASA’s GRAIL spacecrafts. Scientists haven’t always agreed on the size of lunar craters ...

Artificial intelligence was trained to find nearly 110,000 new craters on the moon’s surface, which can teach scientists about the history of the solar system. David Middlecamp ...

For over a decade, the idea of lunar water ice has fueled mission designs and space agency roadmaps. The permanently shadowed ...

Moon craters formed when meteorites and asteroids slammed into the lunar surface. Like fossils on Earth, they reveal something about the history of the solar system and how planets were formed. Using ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to find thousands of new craters on the Moon that had previously gone undetected. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe ...

The Moon’s craters preserve billions of years of history. Scientists have learned about the conditions of our early solar system by studying the composition, size, and distribution of these holes in ...

I give talks about asteroid impacts quite often, and sometimes people ask me why we should worry about them. I reply, “Go outside and look at the Moon. Then tell me we don’t need to worry about ...