The University of Texas at Arlington is teaming up with NASA to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night this Saturday. At the free event, held in the UTA Observatory from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m., ...

The article details an observational target on the Moon's northwestern nearside, specifically the craters J. Herschel and Philolaus, to observe the effects of an advancing sunrise. J. Herschel is ...

Before humans send probes to space to mine for precious metals on asteroids, they could find vast quantities of minerals like platinum on the Moon’s craters, a new study suggests. Minerals like ...

A Sanjay Limaye, planetary scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: One reason the moon has craters is because it gets hit by objects — small ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how Moon craters serve as a cosmic record, preserving ancient asteroid impacts that Earth’s atmosphere and geology erase—offering key insights into our solar system’s ...

A water supply that could help NASA set up a permanent lunar base is preserved—or trapped—within craters so deep, the bottoms haven’t seen the sun for up to two billion years. As most of the vehicles ...

CAREY, Idaho — It's where black lava rock stretches for miles, broken only by the flowers that bloom in the cracks. This is a place so unique, it could pass for another celestial body. Except it's not ...

A 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 Thursday. Some people see bumps, ...

Researchers say there could be over $1 trillion worth of platinum lurking under the surface of the Moon — a major lunar bounty waiting to be mined. As detailed in a paper published in the journal ...