Basalt samples from China's Chang'e-6 mission helped researchers for the first time to precisely measure the age of volcanic eruptions on the far side of the Moon. After analyzing the sample, ...

As they roll across shadowed regions of the moon's surface, future lunar rovers could develop hazardous buildups of electric ...

What can you see when you look up?

Target of probe changed to boost chance of finding water ice on moon. Sept. 29, 2009— -- NASA's LCROSS spacecraft, which is set to collide with the moon next week, has switched its targeted ...

The Moon has a reputation as a frozen, silent world, but a growing body of evidence suggests it is still shifting and straining deep below the surface. From long scarps that wrinkle the crust to fresh ...

REVISE THE ARTEMIS CAMPAIGN IN JUST A COUPLE OF HOURS. INTUITIVE MACHINES IS SET TO LAUNCH FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. THE LUNAR LANDER WILL BE A RESOURCE TO SEARCH FOR WATER BENEATH THE MOON’S SURFACE ...

The first material ever collected from the far side of the Moon could help settle a long-held lunar mystery. According to a ...

Before humans send probes to space to mine for precious metals on asteroids, they could find vast quantities of minerals like platinum on the Moon’s craters, a new study suggests. Minerals like ...

Using images and thermal data collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Southwest Research Institute scientists and their collaborators have calculated the ages of large lunar craters ...

China’s latest lunar mission has quietly redrawn the map of space power. By bringing home the first rocks ever collected from ...

The International Astronomical Union has named a lunar crater–the “Henson Crater”– after Dr. Matthew Alexander Henson, an extraordinary explorer who journeyed to Earth’s North Pole. He led several ...

In 1874, James Nasmyth and James Carpenter published a remarkable book: The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. Lavishly illustrated with spectacular images of lunar features based ...