The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest ... features on the surface of the Moon today. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the Moon since ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered a new crater on the moon that's 33 feet in diameter — as wide as a 3-story building is tall. It could be the crash site of Russia's Luna-25 moon ...

New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon's oldest crater ... on data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Bernhardt and his team ...

after the larger crater, Mersenius E,' explained Noah Petro, a project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) mission. LROC is a Nasa craft currently orbiting the moon to map ...

Earthshine is the effect you get when you sometimes see the faint dark part of the Moon glowing next to a fully illuminated lunar ... filled crater just south of the mid-point between Copernicus ...

To the left the Copernicus crater and its ejecta ... (labeled in red) The Moon will block Mars for a little more than hour on Monday January 13, 2025. Planetary lunar occultations like this ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

We’ll use this effect for the next section on lunar mountains, but before we do, there are a couple of craters that we’d like to bring to your attention. Actually, the Moon is covered with a ...