Recent research has shed light on the role of the Moon’s largest impact crater in explaining the stark visual and geological ...

NASA is gearing up for an ambitious mission to explore the Moon’s largest crater, aiming to uncover mysterious elements ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar ...

A new study reveals that the largest lunar crater, South Pole-Aitken basin, was formed by an oblique impact that shaped the ...

The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...

The findings could help explain why the Moon’s far side is riddled with large craters, while the more explored near side is ...

When astronauts land near the moon's south pole as part of NASA's Artemis program in a few years, they likely will find ...

Artemis astronauts may walk across the Moon’s deepest story - rock blasted from a 4.3-billion-year-old impact that still ...

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 ...

Solving a lunar mystery? Scientist at the University of Arizona is the lead author on research proposing a new theory for the ...

The moon’s oldest and largest crater didn’t form in the way astronomers thought, according to a detailed analysis of its shape, which would rewrite the moon’s early history. The South Pole-Aitken (SPA ...

Target of probe changed to boost chance of finding water ice on moon. Sept. 29, 2009— -- NASA's LCROSS spacecraft, which is set to collide with the moon next week, has switched its targeted ...