The Moon is gradually distancing itself from Earth, which has significant implications for our planet. Over millions of years ...

Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt collecting samples on the Moon on 11 December 1972. (NASA) When Apollo 11 touched ...

Titan's largest moon features immense equatorial dune fields unlike Earth's deserts. These dunes are composed of ...

China’s Chang’e-6 samples have uncovered a surprising difference between the Moon’s two hemispheres. Solar wind particles ...

The Moon is slowly shrinking as its interior cools, and that contraction is generating faults and seismic activity in the very region where NASA plans to land astronauts. A study published in The ...

A violent collision in the main asteroid belt may have sent debris raining across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The event could explain a long-debated spike in lunar impacts and ...

Astronomers have a plan to observe an errant piece of a SpaceX rocket as it hits the moon to better understand impact events ...

The moon has been bathed in solar wind for billions of years, but the two hemispheres are struck by solar wind of different ...

NASA is preparing for future astronaut landings on the Moon with an unusually ambitious orbital rehearsal. During Artemis III ...

As of Sunday, July 19, NASA's Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon phase is in Waxing Crescent phase, with 29% of its ...

After decades of analyzing reams of lunar rocks back here on Earth, the canonical view of the moon was that it was anhydrous; ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are on the verge of returning to the moon. The Artemis II mission is preparing to launch as soon as March 6 to bring four astronauts in a loop around ...