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 ...

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

Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen ...

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

The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

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

NASA’s concept to turn a moon crater into a radio telescope using a ... Credit: NASA If it all sounds very complicated, that’s because it is. This method of deployment requires the cooperation ...

All these ingredients represent the different ... These are similar to the craters we see on the moon. Craters on the moon are often accompanied by some lines radiating away from their center.

If all goes to plan, Athena will land on a plateau just 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the moon's south pole ... hop down into a permanently shadowed crater." That target crater, known as ...