European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...

It is true that crewed missions to the moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous. And we now have a long history going back decades of reliable, dependable, capable robotic exploration, including ...

Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China released LTE440, short for Lunar Time Ephemeris, in a recently ...

Anyone who has seen the movies of Neil Armstrong's first bounding steps on the moon couldn't fail to be intrigued by his unusual walking style. But, contrary to popular belief, the astronaut's ...

Reed Anway · On Dec. 8, 2025, the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, China published a paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics about the Lunar Time Ephemeris, or simply the LTE400, a software which ...

The Moon is far stranger than most people realize. It has moonquakes, a thin exosphere, frozen water trapped at its poles, ...

Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck because the surface of the moon is "fluffier” than on Earth, suggests a new study. Researchers reckon they've finally worked out why the multi-million dollar ...

In 1968, just a year before the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, NASA scientists discovered something that could have sent astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins plunging to their ...

During its initial molten phase, the Moon experienced tidal bulges on its near and far sides due to Earth's immense gravitational pull. The Moon's rotation initially carried these gravitationally ...

The Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will carry four astronauts around the Moon is rolling to Launch ...