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 ...

The biggest and the oldest crater on the moon stretches over 2,000 kilometres and scientists now know exactly when it was formed. Studies have shown that both the Moon and Earth were hit by ...

"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...

The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that preserves secrets about the moon's early history, much like a ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered a new crater on the moon that's 33 feet in diameter — as wide as a 3-story building is tall. It could be the crash site of Russia's Luna-25 moon ...

Amateur space photographer Andrew McCarthy, or 'space nerd' as he calls himself on his Instagram account, has a passion for astronomy, thanks to his dad introducing him to the moon through his ...

As we are intending this as an introduction to the Moon, the craters we have chosen here shouldn ... Over time, further impacts occur which pit the lava resulting in tiny craterlets.

By studying thermal models and craters on the moon and the age of certain minerals, Prof Nimmo and the team now suggest the moon could be up to 4.51 billion years old, more than 150 million years ...

New research published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters suggests that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken Basin, may be more circular than ...

Once it lands, the six-wheeled rover will eject and roam around the rocks and craters on the Moon's surface, gathering crucial data and images to be sent back to Earth for analysis. Watch ...