The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness across the surface of our planet – at the height of the August tourist ...

Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...

It's officially summer, and with that comes the first full moon of the season. July's full moon -- known as the Buck Moon or ...

Monarch Trail in Newport State Park is an easy hike with open sky views. Located in Door County, Wisconsin, this trail is in the state's only official Dark Sky Park.

The moon's near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry—from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity—yet the ...

These three Moon Township gardeners had different motivations to create three beautiful properties among six gardens open to ...

When the Sun hits the rims of the Blanchinus, La Caille, and Purbach craters at just the right angles during the Moon's cycle ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient secrets buried deep beneath the surface of the moon, thanks to China’s Chang’e-4 mission.

Using cutting-edge instruments, it will examine features including the permanently shadowed craters at the Moon's South Pole, which could contain significant quantities (potentially 600 million ...

Astronomers are excited to be poring over the first ever detailed geological map of the moon’s south polar region, where India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar module, Vikram, touched down on August 23 ...

The map below shows the Petavius quadrangle, named after 17th-century theologian Denis Pétau, and features a crater of the same name that measures almost 200 kilometres in diameter.

Earth, being a larger target with stronger gravity, would have been hit more often than the moon, but the evidence of those impacts on Earth has all but disappeared via erosion and plate tectonics.