A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

During the object's visit, Teddy Kareta, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona ... many collisions that has left the moon's surface with its iconic craters. “We had a general idea ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar ...

The Moon is covered in vast numbers of craters, some larger than entire Earth ... NFL moves Vikings-Rams game to Arizona Steelers release speedy WR ahead of Wild-Card matchup vs Ravens Ex-pizzaman ...

The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest, not just on the Moon, but in the entire Solar System. The South Pole-Aitken basin covers nearly a quarter of the Moon ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered a new crater on the moon that's 33 feet in diameter — as wide as a 3-story building is tall. It could be the crash site of Russia's Luna-25 moon ...

Moon craters are generally given the names of notable ... 13% of those surveyed by the Lowell Observatory of Flagstaff, Arizona, believed that the Moon was made of cheese. In 1988.