In 2024, the United States returned a spacecraft to the lunar surface, private astronauts accomplished historic firsts and ...

NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last ...

The optical device, a much more compact version of the retroreflector originally left on the Moon during the Apollo 11 ...

But how did these places get their names? Who named Copernicus Crater? Where did all those names on lunar maps come from, and what stimulated their selection? Ewen Whitaker traces the origins and ...

The moon has both a South and North Pole, but just how cold are they? For context, Antarctica's coastal temperatures average ...

Related: Moon Surprisingly Battered, New Lunar Gravity Map Reveals The study found that the rocks — hardened lava called basalt — were 2.8 billion years old. Previous research had found ...

Is Moon water from ancient volcanic activity or cosmic sources like comets? Bethany Ehlmann of Caltech explains how the mission could reveal Earth’s water origins. Lunar ice might hold clues to ...

This array of missions from NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin and partners for 2025 reflects a busy year—and a dynamic and ...