The craters bear the names of astronomers who revolutionized our understanding of the night sky.

Eudoxus, Aristoteles, and Cassini craters are positioned near the lunar terminator during the first quarter moon, allowing their structures to be observed through telescopes tonight.

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About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to new research. The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to ...

Material from the crater can "tell the story of the late evolution of the lunar magma ocean," scientists say. A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and ...

CAREY, Idaho — It's where black lava rock stretches for miles, broken only by the flowers that bloom in the cracks. This is a place so unique, it could pass for another celestial body. Except it's not ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 was, for a brief time, thought to be on a ...

A Sanjay Limaye, planetary scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: One reason the moon has craters is because it gets hit by objects — small ...

In December 2032, the Moon could become the stage for a dramatic cosmic event: the potential impact of a 60-meter-wide asteroid, known as 2024 YR4. While the chances of this occurrence are relatively ...

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