The following is a press release from the National Parks Service: ARCO, Idaho (KIFI) — The National Park Service (NPS) invites members of the public to participate in three special “walks on the Moon” ...

Before humans send probes to space to mine for precious metals on asteroids, they could find vast quantities of minerals like platinum on the Moon’s craters, a new study suggests. Minerals like ...

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 ...

ARCO — The Pioneers Alliance will host its sixth annual bike tour Saturday, a public event to support recreation, natural history and conservation in the Pioneer Mountains and Craters of the Moon ...

NASA’s lunar orbiter has just revealed a small, previously unseen impact scar on the Moon, a subtle feature that was hiding in plain sight on a surface already crowded with craters. The discovery, ...

American astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minerals like platinum-group metals, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium, could be scattered across the nearly 6,500 ...

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 ...