A 225-meter-wide crater quietly formed on the moon in 2024, only to be discovered months later in orbital images. The event, ...

A crater as wide as two American football fields formed in spring 2024, a size expected roughly once a century. A NASA ...

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 ...

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The moon's heavily cratered surface serves as a testament to how Earth's closest celestial neighbor has become a figurative magnet for space rocks during its 4.5 billion-year history. One of the best ...

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 ...

The craters bear the names of astronomers who revolutionized our understanding of the night sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The headline says it all: The list of our moon's craters just got a little longer. On Nov. 13, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team — which operates visual equipment on NASA's Lunar ...