The Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs), located at its poles, have long been a subject of fascination and scientific ...

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 ...

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

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Idaho Falls-based landscape and wildlife photographer Evan Nelson doesn’t consider himself a “pro” photographer. He works ...

Scientists have shown that a "remelting event" more than 4.3 billion years ago "reset" the internal clock of most lunar rocks ...

Outer space is infinite, but that hasn’t stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to ...