Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

About the canyons: The two canyons, called Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, are located on the far side of the moon, so they can only be seen from orbit — not from Earth. Each canyon is over 165 ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Now, researchers have connected 49 seismic events to impact craters, proving that meteorite strikes leave distinct seismic ...

The moon is still shrinking and stretching, scientists claim, after discovering a series of ridges on the lunar surface that ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto ... To the north is rugged terrain covered in craters and troughs up to 4 miles (6 km) deep. This area includes the 143-mile-wide (230 km ...

Four small space companies plan to send rocket ships to the moon this year -- and two of them ... for evidence of water near the Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole. Interestingly, though ...

NASA's Blue Ghost lunar lander is on its way to the moon, soaring through ... in 2022 with the similarly small Hakuto-R lander. Tenacious will land at the Atlas crater in Mare Frigoris and ...

and another from the Japanese space company ispace—will use their own small engines for the final maneuvers required to enter orbit around the Moon in the coming months. Firefly and ispace ...

The researchers analysed oxygen isotopes from 14 samples from the Moon and carried out 191 measurements on minerals from Earth. Isotopes are varieties of the same element that differ only in the ...