Firefly plans to launch its lander toward the moon’s South Pole by the end of 2026. Assuming it arrives in one piece, the ...

The Moon has long been treated as a geologically dead world, a frozen relic that finished erupting billions of years ago. A wave of new data is now challenging that assumption, pointing instead to a ...

An unusual lunar event that happens only once every 33 months is occurring tonight — but you won’t be able to see it. A black moon will rise on Aug. 23 as the moon passes through its new moon phase at ...

Russia aims to build a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2036 to power its lunar program and a joint Russian-Chinese ...

The Moon has long been cast as a dead world, a place of dust, vacuum and brutal temperature swings that no living thing could endure. New research now suggests that picture is incomplete, hinting that ...

Scientists have developed a nuclear fuel source no larger than a seed, which NASA will test for use in future moon missions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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'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 ...

It's no secret that China is trying to get a foothold in the cosmos. The nation's Martian rover has already proven successful at discovering more about the Red Planet, even if it ultimately ended up ...

Just over five years ago, on 22 February 2019, an unmanned space probe was placed in orbit around the Moon. Named Beresheet and built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, it was intended to be ...