Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it was super-heated and white-hot, or what scientists call impact melt. This eventually cooled and ...

The other map reproduced here shows the Sea of Humors, a plain of what was once lava, dotted with smaller craters. During their visit to the moon in 1969, Aldrin used a lunar surface camera to ...

And when Ebb and Flow had fulfilled their duties, NASA crashed them into a rocky hillside on the moon. These "psychedelic" maps and an ashy crater are all that remain. NASA's Scientific ...

Analysis of samples brought back from the farside of the Moon by the Chang'e 6 mission have found the water content of the lunar farside mantle is much more depleted compared to the nearside.

The bottoms of hundreds of craters at the moon's South Pole ... orbits over a span of several months to position itself to map the surface in detail. It will eventually orbit at an altitude ...

Athena, the second lunar lander from Houston company Intuitive Machines, tipped over during its touchdown on March 6, ending up on its side within a small crater near the moon's south pole.

New images of the moon crater from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show that this hole stretches 59 feet (18 meters) across, with radiating steaks of debris from the impact covering an ...