When the Sun hits the rims of the Blanchinus, La Caille, and Purbach craters at just the right angles during the Moon's cycle ...

As of Monday, July 7, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. From Earth, 89% of the moon will appear visible (according to NASA's ...

Clavius Crater, as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Clavius Clavius Crater is where the adventure begins in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

NASA announced it has discovered water on the sunlit surface of the moon. The water was spotted near the Clavius crater, one of the largest crater formations on the celestial satellite and one ...

This illustration highlights the moon’s Clavius crater and water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) that ...

The water was detected on the Clavius Crater, a large crater located in the moon's southern hemisphere that is visible from Earth ...

On Episode 148 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Dr. Pascal Lee about why Clavius may be the ideal place to build our first lunar base.

The water was found in the Clavius Crater. So who was Christopher Clavius, S.J., and why is there a crater on the moon named after him?

SOFIA detected water molecules in the Clavius Crater in the moon’s southern hemisphere. The crater is so big that it can be seen from Earth, and inside it there’s a tiny amount of real water ...

The team found little hydroxyl around Clavius crater, and they propose impacts by micrometeorites can help mobilize the hydrogen and oxygen atoms, turning them into water.

The Clavius crater on the moon as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The SOFIA observatory has detected water ice in shadowed regions of this sunlit lunar location.