The Moon’s Deepest Scar Still Glows With Clues to Its Fiery Birth

The Moon’s Deepest Scar Still Glows With Clues to Its Fiery Birth

When NASA’s Artemis astronauts land near the moon’s south pole, they may be stepping into a region that holds vital clues to the moon’s ancient past. A new study reveals that a massive asteroid struck the moon from the north roughly 4.3 billion years ago, creating the enormous South Pole-Aitken Basin. This discovery overturns earlier [...]

4-Billion-Year-Old Cosmic Secret Hides Right Where Artemis Astronauts Will Land On The Moon

The Moon's largest, most ancient crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, could rewrite the textbooks on how our Moon was formed. New analysis of the 1,600-mile-wide scar on the lunar far side suggests the impact was the result of a glancing blow, rather than from a direct impact, as previous thought.  The SPA basin, which spans roughly