The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

Lichens bridge the living and non-living – understanding them allows us to better see how to conserve our heritage, and also ...

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the moon has once again become a ...

The Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) is converting a former mine shaft in Taebaek City into a ...

NASA’s learned a lot about the Moon since Apollo. But a perfect landing still requires incredible planning and scientific ...

By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other interesting subsurface features.

This was the company's second attempt to land on the Moon, with both missions having toppled over on the lunar surface.

As more of the solar system has been explored and imaged, all kinds of geographical features have been mapped on many of our ...

A surprising discovery on the Moon could provide crucial insight into the planet’s early history. The South Pole-Aitken Basin ...

IDAHO, USA — Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve marked its 101st birthday Friday, concluding its centennial celebration year with record-breaking visitor numbers and numerous ...

A recent study suggested that it could have come from a smashup that created Giordano Bruno crater, a 14-mile-wide (22 km) impact basin on the far side of the moon. The Giordano Bruno crater on ...

"If there were only one object, that would be interesting but an outlier. If there's two, we're pretty confident that's a ...