Between Aug. 11–12, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the moon. The crater formed Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the surface ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured an extraordinary image of the Moon’s surface. The photo, taken on August 30, 2023, offers a rare glimpse into an unnamed lunar crater, ...

Learn more about the impact left by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and the global collaboration that helped experts capture detailed images of it. The moon is pocked with craters from asteroid, comet, and ...

We just got our first look at the impact crater left by a wayward SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that struck the Moon earlier this month. The Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the lunar surface after being ...

Newly identified crater McGetchin on the Moon, about 222 meters (728 feet) across and roughly 43 meters deep, is the solar system’s largest recently formed impact crater, created in 2024 by an ...

A spacecraft orbiting the Moon has captured new images of a crater created when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage slammed into the lunar surface earlier this month. Other WRAL Top Stories NASA’s Lunar ...

It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scanned a giant Moon map on his computer screen, an unusually large bright ...