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

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

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova ...

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.

The 40-day period of Lent starts with Ash Wednesday. See the 2025 dates, and why and how Christians observe the religious holidays.

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 solutions to these mysteries could reveal much about how the Andromeda Galaxy — which is the closest large spiral galaxy to us, sitting about 2.5 million light-years away — formed and developed ..

Two robotic landers, one from the United States and the other from Japan, are currently in transit toward the moon — and a third ... But the vehicle did not operate as long as Intuitive Machines ...

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 ...