Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

For decades, the Moon was treated as a dead end, a place where flags and footprints marked the limits of human reach. Now ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

Researchers made a tantalizing discovery after they MacGyver-ed old data from a radar instrument on a satellite gathered 14 years ago from the Moon. When they used the mission data in a fresh new way, ...

The Moon exerts a constant physical influence on Earth through gravity, light, and orbital interaction. Its mass shapes ocean ...

NASA HAS big plans for the Moon. By the end of the decade, it wants to send humans back to the lunar surface. Before then, though, it intends to send probes to look for ice at its south pole. This ice ...

The Moon's surface, photographed by Apollo astronauts. New data from China's Chang'e missions suggests there may have been active volcanoes on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago. (NASA ...

Update: On August 19th Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, lost contact with Luna 25 after an orbital manoeuvre. In a statement on August 20th it announced that “a deviation between the actual and ...

A growing fleet of privately built spacecraft is preparing to attempt robotic landings on the moon as humanity's exploration ...

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