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The U.S. and China are each planning to land in the Moon’s Shackleton crater this year. Whoever gets there first will secure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minerals like platinum-group metals, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium, could be scattered across the nearly 6,500 ...

Recent research has shed light on the role of the Moon’s largest impact crater in explaining the stark visual and geological differences between the Moon’s near side, which faces Earth, and its far ...

NASA’s lunar orbiter has just revealed a small, previously unseen impact scar on the Moon, a subtle feature that was hiding in plain sight on a surface already crowded with craters. The discovery, ...

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 difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a permanent ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.