The U.S. and China are each planning to land in the Moon’s Shackleton crater this year. Whoever gets there first will secure ...

As lunar missions ramp up with the goal of establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon, scientists are facing an ...

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...

The findings could have implications for NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to returns Americans to the lunar surface for the ...

Three developments stand out that will make the return to the moon effort different from the first time we visited Earth’s ...

In the coming weeks, Artemis II will send humans around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Could it be a ...

Amy Shira Teitel says past Moon missions delivered a clear purpose and impact, while Artemis II lacks clarity, ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...

February may be the shortest month of the year, but it is packed with celestial events, according to a new skywatching update ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting and reshaping itself. These features are among ...

A look at the debate over building a city on the Moon or Mars, covering scientific findings, mission timelines and challenges discussed on the Fiction Science podcast.

No other world in the solar system has tectonic plates and quakes like Earth, but it doesn’t mean that their ground doesn’t shake. Since the Apollo era, we have known there are moonquakes, and for ...