The Moon’s surface is scarred with massive craters, proof of giant asteroid strikes billions of years ago. Some of these impacts were so huge they reshaped entire regions, like the South Pole–Aitken Basin, one of the largest craters in the Solar System. Unlike Earth, the Moon has no atmosphere and never supported life, so these collisions didn’t wipe out ecosystems but they left behind a permanent record of the Solar System’s violent past. Every crater tells a story of cosmic impacts and mysteri