Despite having the wrong ideas about how the Moon’s craters formed, these 19th-century astronomers created highly accurate ...

The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old ...

As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every square inch of the ...

New research refutes previous assumptions about the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken Basin.

A new study points to why, and how, Io became the most volcanic body in the solar system. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission ...

The full Cold Moon will shine in the middle of December, bringing a lively social energy just in time for the holiday season.

NASA’s Artemis program— the flagship U.S. space-exploration effort —is facing fresh delays in its missions to fly astronauts ...

Scientists have found that the moon's oldest crater is rounder than we thought, which may mean future moon astronauts in the ...

"The full moon rises around sunset and sets around sunrise," NASA wrote. If you're looking ... as Earth’s orbit around the sun, they rarely form a perfect line. When they do, we have a lunar ...

The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest, not just on the Moon, but in the entire Solar ...

As frosty temperatures fall over Central Indiana, the aptly named "Cold Moon" shines ahead of the winter solstice. Here's ...

Three asteroids, 2018 XU3, 2024 XZ11, and 2024 XL11, will safely pass Earth on December 11, 2024. NASA scientists are ...