With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

Previously, NASA had cancelled a contract with Astrobotic to deliver the VIPER water prospecting rover to the lunar south ...

Two moons orbit Mars, and one of them may be on a path to extinction. However, will this prediction actually come to pass? Here's more about what's happening.

For years, scientists have treated the Moon as a relic — a silent witness to the Solar System’s ancient past, geologically ...

Scientists have finally solved a decades-long mystery about a strange crater deep under the North Sea. The Silverpit Crater, first discovered in 2002, has now been confirmed as the result of a massive ...

Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...

Craters of the Moon is inviting people to celebrate National Park Day by attending a nature photography workshop on Saturday.

Idaho’s terrain spans from mountains to deserts to volcanic craters — showcasing a wide range of natural landscapes. In 1969, ...

NASA has selected Blue Origin to help get VIPER, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, to the moon by awarding ...

From massive glaciers to sun-soaked beaches, national parks offer some of America’s wildest and most iconic landscapes.

The National Park Service (NPS) invites members of the public to celebrate the beauty of public lands and sharpen their ...