Placing ultrastable lasers inside some of the coldest, darkest lunar craters could help scientists establish a GPS-like ...

Permanently shadowed craters have long interested scientists. Could a new laser system help future spacecraft navigate the ...

They rank among the darkest and coldest places in the solar system: Hundreds of lunar craters, many of them at the moon's south pole, never receive direct sunlight and lie in permanent shadow. That's ...

As of Monday, May 11, the Moon phase is Waning Crescent. Tonight, 36% of the moon will be be lit up, according to NASA's ...

An exclusive, challenging hike at Meteor Crater is the closest thing to walking on the moon without going there. What hikes include and what it costs.

An exclusive, challenging hike at Meteor Crater is the closest thing to walking on the moon without going there. What hikes ...

Discover the astonishing potential of over $1 trillion in precious metals lying in lunar craters. Mining these resources ...

A new study, published in Science Advances, has refined some important details about the moon's largest and oldest impact crater, which stretches more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) on the far side of ...

The moon glows with the Beehive Cluster on May 21, as a trio of planets form up in the evening sky.

Scientists using Chandrayaan-2 radar data have identified strong signs of buried water ice in ultra-cold craters near the ...

Aug. 5 could see the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched in early 2025 crash into the moon. Here’s why — and what ...