New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

The angle is from orbit looking obliquely across the surface ... generating maps from these images of the moon's surface to ...

Given that campers won’t always be on board, Gateway will be able to operate autonomously, testing the sort of self-direction ... for humans in orbit around the moon,” wrote Virts in an ...

Scientists used photos and data from Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the path of debris.

One of the big issues — with potentially seismic implications for NASA's direction ... space station in lunar orbit as a stepping stone to landing astronauts on the moon, could be in the ...

Occasionally, the moon's orbit carries it into Earth's shadow ... time and moonrise is at 7:16 p.m. local time. In the other direction, observers in Hawaii will see the full moon at 3:53 a.m ...

This means that they used the engines and thrusters to change the spacecraft's speed and direction ... orbit closer to the Earth for the next step of its mission. "Blue Ghost" was launched to the ...

most of which would have lain in the direction of that moon’s orbital motion. Saturn’s other moons orbit over its equator, so the material from this one would likely have wound up in a similar ...

"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...