These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

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

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

The Athena lunar mission is set to deploy the 'Gracie' hopper to explore shadowed craters near the Moon's south pole.

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

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 ...

The far side of the Moon has its own versions of the Grand Canyon—two of them, in fact! A new study explains how these deep ...

These older rocks can help shed light not only on the moon’s origins, but also Earth’s. Kring said it’s unclear whether these two canyons are permanently shadowed like some of the craters at the ...