The presence of this double crater has taken astronomers by surprise. The origin of the rocket that hit the moon in March is still unknown. According to LRO orbiter lead team principal ...

A similar spent booster of uncertain origin slammed into the moon to form the double-crater. None of the many human-made craters is large enough to see in a typical Earth-based telescope ...

and the original crust of the moon is buried under thousands of meters of moon dust, this makes the crater especially exciting to scientists who want to study how the bodies of our solar system ...

(Smaller grains would suggest an older crater.) The polarized light data will also be used to map abundances of titanium on the moon, which could one day be mined for use on Earth. NASA supplied ...

Research recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters shows the moon has pit craters that could be turned into caves, and the stable temperatures there could make them a good ...

The possibility that aliens might have dumped junk on the moon raised eyebrows last month when NASA released photographs of an unusual double crater left behind by something that had smashed into ...

South Korea set off for the moon on Thursday. But it doesn’t want to stop there.“We are also considering using the moon as an ...

Florida's Space Coast was busy on Thursday with two rocket launches just hours apart. South Korea joined the stampede to the ...