A brilliant flash on the Moon's dark side, captured by Irish astronomers on December 12, 2025, likely signals a meteoroid ...

Before humans send probes to space to mine for precious metals on asteroids, they could find vast quantities of minerals like platinum on the Moon’s craters, a new study suggests. Minerals like ...

The video revealed that the Moon may hold massive underground caverns — pit craters over 100 meters deep — that could become ...

American astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a ...

Target of probe changed to boost chance of finding water ice on moon. Sept. 29, 2009— -- NASA's LCROSS spacecraft, which is set to collide with the moon next week, has switched its targeted ...

The lunar surface is rugged. Deep craters are scattered everywhere, and these craters connect to lava tubes. Lava tubes are ...

The article details an observational target on the Moon's northwestern nearside, specifically the craters J. Herschel and Philolaus, to observe the effects of an advancing sunrise. J. Herschel is ...

The University of Texas at Arlington is teaming up with NASA to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night this Saturday. At the free event, held in the UTA Observatory from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m., ...

Rocket crash meant to kick up lunar water; useful to future astronauts? Oct. 9, 2009 — -- NASA's LCROSS mission went plunging into a permanently shadowed crater near the moon's south pole this ...

American astronauts who return to the moon's surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a ...