The Moon’s biggest and most ancient crater is more circular than previously thought ... For geographic context, the letters label other big craters in its vicinity: K - Korolev, A - Apollo, I ...

The lunar X and lunar V will only be observable through a telescope or binoculars pointed at the Moon’s terminator – the line ...

"The crater has to be big enough to have launched something at high enough speed to get out of the Earth's, gravity, the Earth-Moon gravity field, to actually get into this kind of orbit ...

NASA’s concept to turn a moon crater into a radio telescope using a number of cooperative rovers. Credit: NASA, public domain This concept has been on the cards for some time.

These pit craters, which may potentially lead to caves that could also provide human shelter, have temperatures that could make lunar exploration and long-term human habitation on the moon safer ...

The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that preserves secrets about the moon's early history, much like a ...

Tying craters on the moon to impact sites on Earth is tricky business, Stroud cautions. “It’s interesting and promising,” they say, but “the links to the craters on Earth are still ...

When the first astronauts walked on the moon as part of the Apollo Program, the concept of lunar habitats ceased being the ...