A crater as wide as two American football fields formed in spring 2024, a size expected roughly once a century. A NASA ...

New measurements from the Blue Ghost lander suggest that thin crust, not just radioactive heating, shaped the moon’s dark ...

Decades after being sealed away, Apollo-era lunar samples are revealing unexpected chemical signatures that challenge ...

NASA chief Jared Isaacman announced a $30-billion plan to speed up its lunar landings and establish a U.S. moon base by 2036 ...

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NASA’s lunar orbiter has just revealed a small, previously unseen impact scar on the Moon, a subtle feature that was hiding in plain sight on a surface already crowded with craters. The discovery, ...

The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on ...

Apollo 12's pinpoint landing, resilient teamwork, and decades of enduring data prove how one stormy launch reshaped the science of precision exploration. When Apollo 12 lifted off from Cape Kennedy on ...

There will be blood (moon). Earth’s last total lunar eclipse for two years will result in a spooky red “blood moon” that will be visible from New York on Tues. Mar. 3 — weather permitting, of course.

The moon is chock-full of Earth’s history. Elements from our planet’s atmosphere have made their way into moon dust, also called regolith, on a pathway created by the Earth’s magnetic field. These ...

Scientists have grown chickpeas in simulated moon soil, offering a promising step toward farming on the lunar surface. Researchers mixed moon-like regolith with worm-produced compost and helpful fungi ...