Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...

Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...

In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe ...

The moon's canyons stretch out from the Schrödinger impact basin, a 200-mile-wide (320 km) crater located near the moon's south pole, which was formed when a meteor slammed into the lunar surface.

For a long time, scientists believed that the Moon had been geologically dead for billions of years, meaning that all major ...

This has long been debunked by experts and simple experiments showing that the moon landing flag “ripples ... to exist in permanently shadowed craters, offers a unique opportunity to establish ...

A SpaceX launch later this month will send a new type of lunar explorer to the moon. IM-2 ... "We'll hop down into a permanently shadowed crater." That target crater, known as Crater H, lies ...

Intuitive Machines hopes to maintain communications with the hopper while it's on the crater floor using another IM-2 payload, Nokia's Lunar Surface Communication System, which will set up the ...