The U.S. and China are each planning to land in the Moon’s Shackleton crater this year. Whoever gets there first will secure ...

Smithsonian scientists have mapped thousands of young ridges across the lunar maria, which are large, basaltic plains on the ...

Omnifest returns to St. Paul this month, offering audiences awe-inspiring giant-screen experiences with nature and space films.

The Moon, long treated as a geologically inert relic, is still contracting and cracking. A growing body of peer-reviewed research now confirms that tectonic faulting on the lunar surface has occurred ...

Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system, holds an outsized secret that some researchers believe could reshape how ...

Scientists are proposing to build a laser in a crater on the moon to help future lunar missions land safely in the dark and find their way around. This ultra-stable light source could also help us ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting and reshaping itself. These features are among ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...