New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon's oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, may be round, as opposed to the oval shape than scientists ...

There are thousands of lunar craters that can be seen and ... Not too far from Aristarchus lie two distinct ray craters known as Kepler and Copernicus. Their impressive ray systems result from ...

The Moon bears its history on its skin. Earth's only permanent natural satellite is scored and scarred with billions of years ...

Actually, the Moon is covered with a whole host of wonderful ... First, locate the two craters Kepler and Copernicus which were targets pointed out in Section 2. Their rays are less prominent ...

After analyzing the sample, researchers found that the Moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side was volcanically active around 2.8 billion years ago. Another sample was even more ancient ...