China’s Chang’e-6 mission just nailed a landing on the far side of the Moon, turning a once purely theoretical goal into a ...

The Moon is in its waxing crescent phase tonight on January 21, 2026, being only two days old, and is at 7% illumination. Because of this, the majority of the night sky will be in deep darkness. This ...

As they roll across shadowed regions of the moon's surface, future lunar rovers could develop hazardous buildups of electric ...

The Space Launch System and Orion capsule were transported to the launchpad before an astronaut mission that could launch as ...

NASA's SLS rolled to the launch pad prior to the upcoming Artemis II mission. Soon the rocket will send a crew of four around ...

Researchers have also suggested that an asteroid impact triggered the moon’s lopsidedness. Now, lunar rock and soil samples ...

Our nearest neighbor, the moon, is still something of a mystery to us. For decades, scientists have wondered why it appears ...

According to observations of young ridges see on the far side, Earth's moon is not geologically dead, as previously believed.

This suggests that when the South Pole-Aitken impactor hit, it gouged deep into the Moon, generating intense heat. This ...

Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for astronauts to reach Mars. Water will be an extremely important resource on the ...

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It's hard enough to see a meteorite strike on Earth: Most of the bits of space debris that survive entry into the atmosphere plunge into the ocean, which covers about 70 percent of the planet. The ...