As the famed North American road gears up to celebrate its centenary, head to Arizona; home to the longest remaining stretch ...

The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

The next partial solar eclipse is expected to occur on September 21 and be visible in the Southern Hemisphere. Those viewing ...

Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Array would leverage robotic and crewed lunar missions and China-led International Lunar Research Station set to take shape ...

China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years ...

Both of Intuitive Machines’ landing sites were in the challenging southernmost region of the moon, which is riddled with impact craters and other hazards.Several commercial companies — including ...

March's full moon will capture a beautiful astronomical ... Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The NWS cloud cover map below shows the percentage of cloud cover across the nation that ...

Athena, the second lunar lander from Houston company Intuitive Machines, tipped over during its touchdown on March 6, ending up on its side within a small crater near the moon's south pole.

which has a distinctly Death Star-like appearance thanks to the huge Herschel crater on one side of the moon. Lakdawalla pointed out that the Google map labels Herschel as a crater on the exact ...

Lunar craters that are relics of the Late Heavy Bombardment are mostly obvious, since the Moon has hardly any weather phenomena (because of the lack of atmosphere), no plate tectonics, no liquid ...