Four future moon walkers once traded flight suits for rock hammers in a field of black lava in Idaho. Alan Shepard was one of ...

Traveling east out of Boise along I-84 can quickly wear on you. The vast expanse of relatively flat fields and open spaces drones on to the sound of your car whizzing along at 80 mph. I recently found ...

Sometime in the spring of 2024, a space rock possibly as large as a six-story building slammed into the moon and gouged out a crater 728 feet wide — about two football fields end to end. Nobody ...

A new crater on the Moon is helping scientists understand what happens when an object strikes the lunar surface—and how far the impact's effects can reach. The Moon's surface is covered in regolith, a ...

The Moon has two new craters. The first was created by the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that crashed into Moon on Aug. 5. The upper stage was not supposed to hit the Moon, but it appears that ...

The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered an unusually large impact crater, of a size expected only once per century, now named the McGetchin crater. The LRO Diviner instrument, led by ...

Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or asteroid roughly the height of a three- to six-story building smashed into the Moon, leaving a crater 728 feet (222 meters) wide in its wake. A ...

The moon has no shortage of craters. But a newly discovered pit discovered by NASA scientists has proven to be the cosmic equivalent of a needle in a haystack. Each month for the past 17 years, the ...

The moon’s surface experienced a violent encounter with a comet or an asteroid — and has a massive battle scar to prove it. The space rock, estimated to be the size of a building three to six stories ...

NASA's moon-orbiting spacecraft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has captured a fresh new crater on our moon — and this cavity is so huge scientists call it a "once-in-a-century" discovery.

At a whopping 728 feet wide, the newfound basin hints at the risks that impact events may pose to planned human outposts. By Robin George Andrews We may think of the Moon as a silvery, silent realm.