Currently in low lunar orbit, the spacecraft is passing within 60 miles of the moon’s surface and has captured a stunning ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a lunar lander from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, kicking off the latest attempt to touch down on the Moon's surface. Houston-based startup Intuitive ...

That is why when NASA next sends astronauts to the moon’s surface, which is expected to take place in the next few years, it will look very different from the Apollo missions. This time ...

New shielding technology from NASA that protects against damaging lunar dust just passed a trial run on the moon's surface, marking an important milestone in the agency's lunar aspirations.

The last time that a human set foot on the Moon, it was December 1972 — when the crew of the Apollo 17 mission spent a few days on the surface before returning to Earth. Since then only unmanned ...

According to a new paper published in Nature Geoscience, tiny silicate glass beads discovered on the Moon’s surface are perfect for creating hidden troves of water on our lunar satellite.

Our newest version uses a mosaic of some 15,000 images and detailed height measurements from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has surveyed the entire surface. The moon is peppered with ...

That the water content within the lunar far and near sides differs seems “coincidentally consistent” with the variations in the surface features of the moon’s two hemispheres, said Sen Hu ...