Scientists have uncovered a freckle on the Moon. This freckle is a lunar crater that was recently detected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), according to Space.com. NASA announced the ...
NASA’s lunar orbiter has just revealed a small, previously unseen impact scar on the Moon, a subtle feature that was hiding in plain sight on a surface already crowded with craters. The discovery, ...
Material from the crater can "tell the story of the late evolution of the lunar magma ocean," scientists say. A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and ...
The Moon has always held a certain mystery, especially its far side, hidden from Earth’s view. While telescopes and astronauts have revealed much about its surface, recent research has uncovered ...
The South Pole-Aitken impact basin on the far side of the Moon formed in a southward impact (toward the bottom in the image). The basin has a radioactive “KREEP-rich” ejecta blanket on one side of the ...
NASA has just revealed enormous cracks, or grabens, on the Moon that show how the Mare Humorum fractured billions of years ...