The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...
Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the Moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...
Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...
The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.
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 proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...
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 ...
Alien Activity and the NASA Cover-up The far side of the moon has been a mystery since the dawn of the space age. But is it ...
Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...
The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At least, that's what planetary scientists who have discovered 266 lunar "wrinkle ...