The Moon is covered in vast numbers of craters, some larger than entire Earth-based Nations, which may serve as dome habitats ...

Launch licenses the FAA just issued to Blue Origin and SpaceX are setting the stage for space billionaires Jeff Bezos and ...

What is the temperature of the moon? Actually, it's not that cold — at least, not all the time. As on Earth, the temperature ...

New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon's oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, may be round, as opposed to the oval shape than scientists ...

Get your binoculars out! On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to see Saturn vanish behind the crescent moon — an event known as a lunar ...

The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest, not just on the Moon, but in the entire Solar System. The South Pole-Aitken basin covers nearly a quarter of the Moon ...

Sometimes, it's hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger ...

A photo taken in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is now part of a U.S. Department of Interior collection.

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

Learn key facts about the Moon: from its significant distance and relative size compared to Earth to its distinctive color ...