As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets, including one last giant impact that threw enough rock, gas, and dust into space to form the ...

The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

In 2020, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft returned moon rocks from the near side, the first since those collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts and Soviet Union spacecraft in the 1970s. The Chang’e-4 ...

The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.

The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to form the Moon. Lunar meteorite Dar al Gani 400. In 1998, this specimen was found in the Sahara Desert, in Libya. The Apollo missions ...

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...

The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 will plunge moon missions into darkness. What will happen to the lunar spacecraft?

Asteroid 2024 PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This discovery has led scientists to believe there are many more ...

light-colored swirls on Moon's surface could be rocks magnetized by magma activity underground, laboratory experiments ... Geologists Expect Chang'e-6 Lunar Surface Samples to Contain Volcanic ...

Now, Firefly is about to find out if its lunar program is a technical success. Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 ...