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

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 ...

The Earth and moon have been locked in a gravitational dance for billions of years. Each day, as the Earth turns, the moon ...

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

revealing how the moon formed and that it was once covered in an ocean of magma. “One of the concerns, you know, we developed this detailed story (about the moon) from all the Apollo results ...

Lead researcher Professor Darren Williams says: 'No one knows how the moon was formed. 'For the last four decades, we have had one possibility for how it got there. Now, we have two.' In 1984 ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.

The moon's surface is marked by stark contrasts: the near side, which faces Earth, is home to vast, flat plains formed by ancient lava flows. However, the far side is pockmarked with craters ...

"The moon is sort of like Earth's attic in terms of preserving the impact records; it's the only place where we can get Earth ...

China plans to use lunar material to build its moon base. Chinese scientists are developing the capability to build a moon ...