“We know large impacts were common in the early solar system from looking at the Moon,” Tim Johnson, from Curtin University. “Until now, the absence of any truly ancient craters means they ...

The new image, taken on Feb. 5 by Andrew James McCarthy, frames the space station with Shackleton Crater, a famous landmark on the moon near its south pole. The site is a potential future landing ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

Update: Intuitive Machines announced on 7 March that the Athena spacecraft had landed on its side in a lunar crater and has run ... The latest attempt to land on the Moon went at least partially ...