NASA's Galileo spacecraft took this image of the Moon on December 7, 1992, showing the bright Tycho crater at the bottom. This image, captured by Lunar Orbiter 2, shows Copernicus crater on the Moon ...

James Turrell discusses his ongoing land art piece, Roden Crater, created within a pit formed by an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert. ART21: Where are we, right now? TURRELL: Well, right now ...

Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede: This image presents Jupiter's moon Ganymede as seen by the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1996. In 1998, Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph took the first ...

Copernicus Crater: This image taken by NASA's Lunar Orbiter II shows the floor of the Copernicus crater on the Moon's surface. The lunar surface is dotted with craters created by asteroid impacts ...

If it nails its touchdown on the lunar surface, Athena will unpack its payloads, including a Micro-Nova robot named Grace that will hop into a nearby crater and then hop back out. The robot is ...

Should it hit the moon, it is most likely to land in the region stretching south from the Mare Crisium, a large plain of solidified lava, to the crater Tycho. This could be concerning since this ...

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The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy crater. A SpaceX launch later this month will send a new type of lunar ...

The moon Tycho Crater is captured by Danu-ri's high-resolution camera./Courtesy of KAI Discussions are underway regarding how to operate Danuri after its mission period ends. Plans are being ...

Hazards include high levels of volcanic gas, falling volcanic fragments near the vents, unstable crater walls, ground cracking and potential rockfalls — especially around areas that have been ...

Recent discoveries, powered by artificial intelligence, have revealed a new crater on Mars that evidences how deeply impact-generated seismic waves can travel. This finding challenges existing models ...