The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...

Explore 7 mysterious and interesting facts about the Moon, including its origin, water presence, orbit, size, and potential for future human colonization and exploration.

The moon’s oldest and largest crater didn’t form in the way astronomers thought, according to a detailed analysis of its shape, which would rewrite the moon’s early history. The South Pole-Aitken (SPA ...

The moon's heavily cratered surface serves as a testament to how Earth's closest celestial neighbor has become a figurative magnet for space rocks during its 4.5 billion-year history. One of the best ...

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 moon is not so much the serene orb we clearly see in night skies a few nights a month but rather a noisy battleground ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about ten minutes. That's ...

The University of Texas at Arlington is teaming up with NASA to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night this Saturday. At the free event, held in the UTA Observatory from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m., ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...