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

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

The first study on the Moon samples brought back by the Chinese Chang'e-6 mission show that the Moon's far side was just as ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

The solutions to these mysteries could reveal much about how the Andromeda Galaxy — which is the closest large spiral galaxy ...

Firefly Aerospace’s robotic vehicle became the second privately built spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. It could soon be joined by two more private lunar landers.

But the vehicle did land tipped over on its side ... Scientists believe Mare Crisium was formed when the moon was struck by an asteroid. Over time, the basin flooded with basaltic lava ...

From college rock phenoms in the '80s, R.E.M became global superstars in the '90s — and they did it all on their own terms.

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to study how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe began.