The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest, not just on the Moon, but in the entire Solar System. The South Pole-Aitken basin covers nearly a quarter of the Moon ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

The Moon is covered in vast numbers of craters, some larger than entire Earth-based Nations, which may serve as dome habitats for humanity's future space colonies. But what would a crater city ...

NASA’s concept to turn a moon crater into a radio telescope using ... That’s far in excess of the largest radio telescopes on Earth, like the 500 m FAST in China, and the 305-m-wide destroyed ...

Scientists have studied the moon's surface for decades to help piece together its complex geological and evolutionary history. Evidence from the lunar maria (dark, flat areas on the moon filled with ...

Whereas a moon usually orbits a planet ... Dorothy Gale crater, one of Charon's largest craters. The south is covered in smoother plains, including one called Vulcan Planitia, which may be ...

A new study suggests Pluto's largest moon, Charon, may have formed through a unique "kiss and capture" event billions of years ago. A new theory proposes that Pluto’s largest moon, Charon ...

The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that preserves secrets about the moon's early history, much like a ...