Several companies firmly believe that mining for helium-3 (He-3) on the moon is a real potential money-maker. But is there an ...

The Moon, our constant celestial companion, is drifting away from Earth at a slow but measurable rate. According to a detailed study published byThe Conversation, the Moon is moving approximately 1.5 ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are ...

The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new ...

Seems to me that processing tonnes of lunar regolith will involve lots of messy details that we don't know about yet. That's the real advantage to sending an excavator to the moon and running it.

A Senate Commerce Committee hearing sounded the alarm over the U.S.-China space race, emphasizing American dominance off ...

In a move straight out of science fiction, NASA's latest scheme for moon and Mars habitats is as wild as it gets--mushroom houses. Courtesy of redhouse studios/NASA NASA is cooking up a plan that’s ...

Joseph Silk is not a fantasist or science fiction author. He holds a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University and taught astrophysics and cosmology at Oxford University. But what he wrote in his ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...