New images shared by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon since 2009, have revealed the location of the unusual crater. The impact created two craters that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances ...

Close to the moon's south pole are two canyons each comparable ... extending outward from a large and round impact crater, with smaller craters from unrelated impacts also in the vicinity.

A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, researchers say. Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could ...

If a lunar asteroid could be linked to a specific impact crater on the moon, studying it could unveil secrets about the pockmarked lunar surface. “This is a story about the moon as told by ...

This is a global view to show the entirety of the South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA), the largest and oldest impact crater on the Moon. For geographic context, the letters label other big craters in ...

NASA has upped the odds of a 200ft “city killer” asteroid smashing into the Moon in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was once feared ...

An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash ...

Scientists who want to study the Moon can’t just go there… but the Arizona desert has the next best thing: a crater stamped ...

A picture taken recently by a Japanese company’s spacecraft shows how your interpretation of objective reality can be tested ...

Shortly after astronomers detected asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, they realized it posed no threat to Earth. But it ...