This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered a massive new crater, McGetchin, on the ...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed a 728-foot-wide crater that formed on the Moon in 2024, making it the largest newly formed crater ever identified in the solar system. The impact ...
A routine data check has led NASA scientists to identify the largest newly formed impact crater ever discovered on the Moon. Named McGetchin, the crater appeared after a space rock struck the lunar ...
Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or asteroid the size of a 3- to 6-story building hit the moon. But we didn’t know about it until someone scanning Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter maps ...
NASA is bringing artificial intelligence to the study of the moon, helping researchers transform how they analyze its surface. In an ongoing collaboration with IBM Research and several academic ...
Between Aug. 11–12, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the moon. The crater formed Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the surface ...
It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scanned a giant Moon map on his computer screen, an unusually large bright ...
Robert Wagner was midway through a routine data-quality check on October 24, 2025, when an unusually bright patch with a dark halo caught his eye on a giant Moon map. The map had been built from Lunar ...