The presence of this double crater has taken astronomers by surprise. The origin of the rocket that hit the moon in March is still unknown. According to LRO orbiter lead team principal ...

A similar spent booster of uncertain origin slammed into the moon to form the double-crater. None of the many human-made craters is large enough to see in a typical Earth-based telescope ...

Never before had a rocket crash caused a double crater on the Moon. The crash site, which has been photographed by NASA, has left scientists puzzled. Although there were earlier signs that a ...

“the double nature of the crater may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end”. At least 47 of Nasa’s robotic or crewed rocket bodies have crashed into the moon, according ...

and the original crust of the moon is buried under thousands of meters of moon dust, this makes the crater especially exciting to scientists who want to study how the bodies of our solar system ...

This week on Dread: The Unsolved, we look at the recent mysterious craters on the moon. A set of double craters has appeared and no one wants to take responsibility. What could have caused them?

Mars is cluttered with craters made due to collisions of asteroids.

(Smaller grains would suggest an older crater.) The polarized light data will also be used to map abundances of titanium on the moon, which could one day be mined for use on Earth. NASA supplied ...

In contrast, younger craters, though they formed later ... the researchers estimate that the moon experienced about double the number of small impacts as can be seen on its surface today.

South Korea set off for the moon on Thursday. But it doesn’t want to stop there.“We are also considering using the moon as an ...

NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) prototype recently endured the most realistic tests to date of ...

South Korea set off for the moon on Thursday. But it doesn’t want to stop there. “We are also considering using the moon as ...