NASA's GRAIL mission has unveiled significant differences between the moon's nearside and farside, attributing them to tidal deformation and varied volcanic activity. The nearside, warmer and more ...

The far side of the moon has a drier mantle than researchers previously believed, giving scientists more insight into its water content and the way that the moon has evolved. “Water abundance is ...

Powered by incredibly advanced technology for its day, the Apollo 11 mission saw astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon and set foot on the lunar surface. As part of their ...

The Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander was launched by Firefly Aerospace in mid-January and landed on the moon on March 2. It was the first successful commercial moon landing. The lander delivered 10 ...

An artist’s conception shows the Blue Moon MK1 lander on the moon. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK1 cargo lander to deliver a scientific ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday and deployed two commercial lunar landers on separate trajectories to reach the Moon in the next few ...

The Moon bears its history on its skin. Earth's only permanent natural satellite is scored and scarred with billions of years' worth of cratering – a record of constant bombardment. The biggest and ...

When astronomy fans look to the sky this week, they'll get to see November's Beaver full moon, the last of 2024's four consecutive supermoons. The 2024 series of supermoons started in August with ...

The moon is by far the most luminous object in the night sky. Reaching a maximum brightness of -12.92 magnitude, it's hard to miss as it boldly takes center stage and washes out any celestial ...

The loss of the magma played a crucial role in the moon's landscape formation. There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing ...

At that time the man-in-space program was expanded beyond the limited Mercury effort to a full-scale attack on the problems of manned flight to the moon and planets. The impetus for the decision ...

China landed a spacecraft on the Moon this weekend for the fourth time, successfully placing its Chang’e 6 lander in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the Moon. After the landing on ...