Astronomers have captured a high-resolution image of one of the moon's youngest craters, using new radar technology. The image of the 53-mile-wide Tycho crater was taken using the Green Bank ...

Showing some of the Moon’s major craters, including Schomberger at lower left, this detailed limb view of the lunar south pole taken July 2, 2017, captures how it might appear to passengers ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Earth’s Moon might seem a bit boring when viewing it with the naked eye, with its ...

File this under "OMG. SO COOL." NASA released a new video April 9 of the moon that contains vividly detailed close-ups of craters and boulders and gives watchers yet another reason to appreciate ...

Hypertelescope capable of direct high-resolution imaging with a high limiting magnitude have been built and tested on Earth. The Hypertelescope group have proposed giant telescopes 10-25 kilometers ...

The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that ... Using high-resolution data from NASA's Lunar ...

This photo of craters at the moon's north pole was taken By Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter on Oct. 31, 2007. ... "Each data has many very fine high-resolution wavelengths.Therefore, ...

A high-resolution closeup of Saturn's moon Mimas shows mysterious color differences around the huge Herschel crater. The combined picture, released March 29, 2010, is based on several shots taken ...

The approach is rooted in a technique that has been used for approximately 50 years: using shadows to reveal the topography of the moon’s surface, such as changes in elevation within craters or ...

The floors of the moon's polar craters are permanently dark as the sun never passes overhead but always moves in a circle around the horizon. The shadowy landscapes around the poles are therefore ...