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

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.

Researchers at Dartmouth College set out to understand exactly how these geysers form ... all the way through the moon's thick ice shell, and second, even if a crack did reach the ocean, it's ...

“We’re on the moon ... we did it!” Ms. Allensworth shouted afterward. “It’s amazing. My heart is beating so fast.” The landing site lies in Mare Crisium, a flat plain formed ...

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 ...

Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter that shared a launch on Wednesday with the commercial Athena lander, will help scientists understand where the moon’s water is, and what form it takes. By Kenneth ...

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 restoration of wolves into Yellowstone was a “moon shot” moment ... an alpha female whose line would form the backbone of Yellowstone’s wolf population. Eighteen months after ...

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

Little did he know the road would ... taking pictures to fill in the rest of the moon at the same focal length. Later, he stitched them together to form a mosaic. Each panel is composed of about ...