A crater that never sees sunlight might sound like the wrong place to build delicate scientific equipment. Jun Ye sees it ...

Placing ultrastable lasers inside some of the coldest, darkest lunar craters could help scientists establish a GPS-like ...

For all its ancient, familiar features, the Moon is still changing—and sometimes in dramatic ways. Scientists recently identified a fresh 22-meter-wide crater by comparing orbital images taken years ...

Later this year, two spacecraft are scheduled for launch on missions to land somewhere near the rim of Shackleton Crater, an impact basin near the Moon’s south pole harboring an immense reservoir of ...

The Moon is constantly being bombarded by traveling space rocks, its surface recording each collision in the form of craters that never fade in the absence of wind or surface water. Most lunar craters ...