While you are watching, look for some of the Moon's features visible to the naked eye. The Tycho crater is easy to spot in the southeast. This impact crater, named after the Danish astronomer ...

It touched down on the rim of the Tycho crater, where it collected plenty of scientific data and took over 21,000 pictures. 'Something the overwhelming majority of Americans support': House passes ...

In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ice-capped crater on Mars (archived) that scientists recently discovered.

This blog was prompted by an enquiry we received recently about the two commemorative plaques for ‘Jim’ and ‘Tycho’ set into the wall in an obscure corner of ...

Researchers stand behind glass fencing as they show the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old and was found in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater ...

Older craters are rounded, younger ones not so much. Much like the previously covered young crater Tycho and its central peak, King's mountains are thought to have been formed as material got ...

owing to its rocky walls and bright ejected material seen radiating out of the crater. In fact, all craters with bright ejecta (Tycho, Aristarchus, etc.) are part of the Copernican period, the lunar ...

Understanding the Moon and the processes that shaped it helps us to better understand other objects in our solar system.