Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...
President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...
Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...
Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...
Scientists say Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck—dramatic trenches near the lunar south pole—were carved in a blast that ...
Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...
U.S. and British scientists used photos and data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the path of debris that produced these canyons about 3.8 billion years ago.