NASA's Artemis II mission is sending humans back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. Here are the reasons ...

Catch the soft glow of earthshine as a young crescent moon appears low after sunset.

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

Four uncrewed lunar lander missions are set for 2026, paving the way for NASA's Artemis program to return humans to the moon.

A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon’s surface today. The Moon’s familiar surface tells a story of both ancient violence and ...

In 1959, the Luna 2 probe from the Soviet Union became the very first human-made object to reach our closest celestial neighbor. In the decades since, we have been leaving footprints—both literally ...

Four uncrewed lunar lander missions are set for 2026, paving the way for NASA's Artemis program to return humans to the moon.

The United States landed a spacecraft on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years when a private lander reached the lunar surface on Thursday evening. Intuitive Machines’s Odysseus lander ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have demonstrated that fiber-optic cables buried in simulated lunar soil can detect small earthquakes, raising the prospect that communication lines on ...

When Apollo 11 astronauts returned to Earth after accomplishing history’s first-ever crewed moon landing, they brought back nearly 50 pounds of moon dust and rocks. Researchers who initially analyzed ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...