NASA released the beautifully detailed images on the sixth day of Orion’s 25.5-day journey and they show moon’s mysterious surface and its craters frozen in time.

V isiting Craters Of The Moon National Monument and Preserve is like taking a step onto another planet! For good reason too, 15,000-2,000 years ago Lava started erupting from the Great Rift that ...

If you can see only bumps — or craters, for that matter — Martinez-Conde suggests tilting your head, switching your gaze from one place to another or just staring at the image for a while ...

A rocket body impacted the Moon on March 4, 2022, near Hertzsprung crater, creating a double crater ... More roughly 28 meters wide in the longest dimension. LROC NAC M1407760984R; image enlarged 3x.

Saturn's moon Mimas glows a shining white in this photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Dominating the image is Mimas' defining feature Herschel Crater, named after the astronomer William Herschel ...

Named after a German Jesuit priest, Christopher Clavius, it was formed around 4 billion years ago by the impact of a huge asteroid and is an impressive 143.5 miles (231 kilometers) across, making ...

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The crater is 14 miles wide and is believed to be the youngest crater of its size on the moon's surface. Most near-Earth asteroids come from the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter's orbits.

BUTTE, Idaho (KIFI) - The Craters of the Moon National Monument celebrates 100 years this May through September. This summer, the National Parks Service (NPS) will celebrate the centennial by ...

A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, was once part of the Moon. More specifically, a research team led by Tsinghua ...

This 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 on Thursday. Some people ...