Here's when to see a pair of massive letters shining on the lunar surface around May's first quarter moon phase.

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

Scientists propose ultrastable lunar lasers inside permanently shadowed craters to enable GPS-like navigation and precision ...

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

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 ...

Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve is a feast for the eyes. With barren lava fields and craters dotting the rugged landscape, it projects a certain lunar-like feel — so much so that it ...

Later this year, two spacecraft are scheduled for launch on missions to land somewhere near the rim of Shackleton Crater, an impact basin near the Moon’s south pole harboring an immense reservoir of ...

NASA and other space agencies are intent on sending astronauts back to the moon, and this time, to stay! A vital part of these plans for reducing costs and dependency on Earth is the process of ...

The Moon is constantly being bombarded by traveling space rocks, its surface recording each collision in the form of craters that never fade in the absence of wind or surface water. Most lunar craters ...

You can probably conjure this vision of the moon—hold the image in your mind and transmit it off this planet and onto our shining opalescent companion. Peaks in the sun? I’ve seen that. This week, we ...

When the four astronauts completing NASA’s Artemis II mission requested to name a lunar crater on the moon after NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman’s wife, Carroll, they made quite an impact on parents whose ...