As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar ...

A new study reveals that the largest lunar crater, South Pole-Aitken basin, was formed by an oblique impact that shaped the ...

New research reveals the Moon's colossal South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by an asteroid striking from the north, not the ...

New analyses of the largest impact crater on the moon reveal unexpected insights into its tumultuous past. They also suggest that once astronauts return to the moon, they will have access to a ...

A lunar crater of planetary proportions, the South Pole-Aitken basin, is finally revealing the secrets of its violent birth.

Look south of the moon's equator on Oct. 4 to find Mare Nubium (Latin for "the Sea of Clouds") darkening a vast swathe of the ...

The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...

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We may have been wrong about how the Moon's largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, formed roughly 4.3 billion years ago ...

All impact craters once boasted ejecta rays of their own, which become dulled with prolonged exposure to the space environment. The ones we see today are relatively young, with Tycho for example being ...

The Moon's largest, most ancient crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, could rewrite the textbooks on how our Moon was ...

When NASA’s Artemis astronauts land near the moon’s south pole, they may be stepping into a region that holds vital clues to ...