U.S. 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 massive asteroid hit the Earth eons ago and left glassy remnants across Southern Australia. But the crater is missing.

Solving a lunar mystery? Scientist at the University of Arizona is the lead author on research proposing a new theory for the ...

New research forces scientists to reconsider the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin, the landing spot for NASA’s Artemis project.

Roughly 45 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the seabed of what is now the North Sea, triggering a tsunami ...

Look south of the moon's equator on Oct. 4 to find Mare Nubium (Latin for "the Sea of Clouds") darkening a vast swathe of the ...

Scientists found rare glass fragments in Australia. These ananguites reveal a massive ancient asteroid impact. The collision occurred millions of year ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. In the best-selling novel "The Martian" and the movie based on it, stranded astronaut Mark Watney's adventures take ...

The claim that the world's biggest impact crater is in Mexico was false. The video does not show the world's biggest impact crater or even a crater in Mexico; it's a video of a volcanic crater, ...

A storm system near the Bahamas is expected to become Tropical Storm Imelda and approach the U.S. East Coast. A tropical storm watch has been issued for parts of Florida's east coast, with heavy ...

Minerals like platinum-group metals, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium, could be scattered across the nearly 6,500 craters made by asteroids on the Moon, according to the study published in ...

Before humans send probes to space to mine for precious metals on asteroids, they could find vast quantities of minerals like platinum on the Moon’s craters, a new study suggests. Minerals like ...