At this time, the sun shines at such an angle to make it appear as if there is a gigantic 'V' and 'X' marking the barren ...

This captivating sight took place when sunlight illuminated the Montes Jura mountain range, creating a crescent-shaped golden ...

Every crater, rock and speck of dust on the Moon tells a story, but because it's not exactly close to our planet, this history is a little harder to study than say, the Grand Canyon.

The Moon was formed more than 4 billion years ago, when a Mars-sized object collided with Earth. It is estimated that roughy 225 new impact craters are formed on the lunar surface about every ...

Despite having the wrong ideas about how the Moon’s craters formed, these 19th-century astronomers created highly accurate plaster models.

EXPLAINS CRATERS ON MOON.; Prof. See Says They Were Formed by Impact of Satellites. Share full article. Dec. 5, 1909. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

The lunar X and lunar V will only be observable through a telescope or binoculars pointed at the Moon’s terminator – the line ...

The largest crater on the moon was probably created when a huge rock smashed into the surface 4.338 billion years ago, leaving behind a seething pool of magma.This hints that Earth was ...

The Moon may have remelted after it first formed Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing old craters.