For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

Chinese-American scientist was dubbed the ‘first lady of physics’, but her contributions to her native land remain shrouded ...

The journey of exploration is far from over for Chang ... the largest known impact crater in the Solar System. The dark side of the moon is also home to a number of other interesting features ...

The area, between two lunar craters called Compton and Belkovich ... of other rocky bodies in the solar system.” The moon’s far side is impossible to see from Earth because it’s also ...

That is why the moon is pockmarked with so many craters. Also, while it's commonly referred to as the "dark side" of the moon, the far side is lit up half the time—and fully lit when we down on ...

The far side has a thicker, older crust that is pocked with more craters. There are also very ... lies within a much bigger hole punched in the Moon - the South Pole-Aitken basin.

And then we rotated the spacecraft around 180 degrees and there, slowly slipping by, were the ancient old craters on the far side of the moon, just about sixty miles below. Once they looped around ...

Current and upcoming Moon missions focus on exploring the lunar south pole in particular, with frozen water presumed to exist in deep craters at ... telescopes on the far side of the Moon.

The far side of the moon... There's good evidence that ice is there. In October 2009, NASA deliberately smashed a rocket into one of the craters and confirmed that the plume of material thrown off ...

China says its uncrewed craft has successfully landed on the far side of the Moon - an ... The probe could extract some of the Moon's oldest rocks from a huge crater on its South Pole.