China is considering building a nuclear plant on the Moon to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) it is ...

Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...

But from the lunar surface, the effect would have been reminiscent ... had it not tipped over and died during its March 6 landing on the moon's south pole. What is happening on the moon during ...

The creation of water on the lunar surface is possible, according to NASA, because the Moon lacks an atmosphere. Unlike the ...

Scientists have long noted differences between the lunar near side and far side. While the near side periodically passes ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is so small that, on the surface of Mars, Deimos would only appear about as ...

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

The work follows similar research that has looked at possibilities for extracting water from the Moon’s surface, and building bricks for houses out of the dust that is found there. Like other ...

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 ...

The Navajo, along with other Native American groups, have argued that the regulations currently in place allow for the unwarranted exploitation of the moon's surface. From our morning news ...

Moon dust is quickly becoming a magic material, from which oxygen and other elements such as titanium can be extracted, that ...

Lunar eclipses can either be partial, with only some of the moon’s surface covered, or total, with the entire face of the moon darkened. The type of lunar eclipse depends on how precise the ...