The craters bear the names of astronomers who revolutionized our understanding of the night sky.

Eudoxus, Aristoteles, and Cassini craters are positioned near the lunar terminator during the first quarter moon, allowing their structures to be observed through telescopes tonight.

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 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 ...

Material from the crater can "tell the story of the late evolution of the lunar magma ocean," scientists say. A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and ...

The Moon has a reputation as a frozen, silent world, but a growing body of evidence suggests it is still shifting and ...

A mysterious lunar landslide might be the product of large chunks of debris from the impact that formed the crater Tycho slamming into the side of a moon mountain. The Light Mantle, which is a bright ...

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 ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 was, for a brief time, thought to be on a ...