NASA featured a high-resolution mosaic of the lunar farside on October 10, 2026, highlighting the stark contrast between the heavily cratered hidden hemisphere and the smooth dark…
Lunar impact craters are the depressions left behind after an asteroid, meteoroid, or comet collides with the Moon.
A newly identified lunar crater, named McGetchin, was formed between April 11 and May 22, 2024, when an asteroid or comet struck the Moon, creating the largest newly formed impact…
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered McGetchin, the largest newly formed crater ever found in the solar system.
NASA’s annual International Observe the Moon Night returns on Saturday, September 19, 2026, inviting sky-watchers worldwide to view the lunar surface during its first-quarter…
A NASA scientist discovered the largest newly formed impact crater ever documented in the solar system, a 728-foot-wide crater on the Moon formed between April 11 and May 22…
NASA and IBM launched the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI tool trained on 17 years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data to analyze the Moon’s surface, detect…
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered a massive 222-meter-wide crater on the Moon, estimated to form roughly once in a lifetime, or ~130 years.
A new research study led by NASA scientists has found that certain fungi and bacteria hitchhiking on spacecraft could survive for periods of weeks to months under specific…
NASA and IBM released an open-source artificial intelligence model designed to map lunar craters, volcanic formations, and polar ice.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured sharp before-and-after images of a fresh 60-foot crater on the moon, carved when a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage plowed into…
A household mold known as Aspergillus niger has emerged as the toughest organism in a NASA-led lunar survival study published in August 2026.