This Friday afternoon represented a significant milestone for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). According to ...

some with central ‘pimples’, closely resembling lunar craters. In the present work, we have repeated this experiment (Fig. 1). We have also put a quantity of dry powder (sand, salt ...

The crater itself is about 50 miles across but its rays spread for almost the diameter of the Moon. See if you can trace the one that crosses the Mare Serenitatis (which you now know about thanks ...

Now, however, a researcher working with Nasa's LROC moon-mapping mission claims the strange mark is nothing more than a crater within a crater. According to UFO Sightings Daily, the discovery ...

In particular there are more and more studies focusing on the distribution, classification, dating, formation mechanisms, and degradation processes of lunar craters as well as the detection of ...

Craters on the moon are often accompanied by some lines radiating away from their center. These are called rays. Did you see rays in your experiment?

What if it could build a big radio telescope up on the Moon? NASA’s concept to turn a moon crater into a radio telescope using a number of cooperative rovers. Credit: NASA, public domain This ...

The Moon formed close to Earth from the debris ... on Oceanus Procellarum. Crater rays fade after about a billion years, but lava flows have obscured the southern portion of Lichtenberg’s ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered a new crater on the moon that's 33 feet in diameter — as wide as a 3-story building is tall. It could be the crash site of Russia's Luna-25 moon ...