More than four billion years ago, something enormous slammed into the moon hard enough ...

Scientists have revealed crucial new details about the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the moon’s largest and oldest confirmed ...

A new study, published in Science Advances, has refined some important details about the moon's largest and oldest impact ...

When the Chang’e-4 mission landed in the Von Karman crater on January 3, 2019, China became the first and only country to land on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away from Earth.

Schematic illustrating that Chang'e-6 norites document the 4.25 Ga lunar South Pole-Aitken impact event. Credit: Su Bin Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken ...

A topographic model of the Moon using a color-scale from purple (low) to red (high) based on data collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Kaguya by the Japanese Space Agency. This is a ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar history—and to the rocks you’ll want sampled next. A study led by Jeffrey ...

American astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a ...

An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. China's Chang'e-6 lunar module has returned to Earth after two months ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the Moon’s largest and oldest impact crater. Now, a research team led by Prof. CHEN YI from the Institute of ...