Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...
Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon. How ...
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...
Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and that’s good news for future lunar astronauts.
In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe ...
Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...
USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth's enigmatic inner core, revealing for the ...
Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...
Researchers at the University of Southern California say they’ve unraveled the mystery of why Earth’s inner core has been slowing, gradually altering the length of a ...
That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...