Each night, the moon glistens in the night sky, replete with all sorts of meanings depending on the person viewing it. Poets ...

Today, Earth’s moon is uninhabitable and does not contain a trace of life. It does not have much of an atmosphere, a drop of ...

The study of our Moon has experienced a renaissance in recent years, particularly through ongoing and planned sample return missions, which allow us to study lunar rock samples at unprecedented detail ...

The following is an excerpt from Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow by Christopher Cokinos. The book will be published April 2, 2024, by Pegasus Books.

Lunar eclipses, transforming the Moon into a copper disc, have fascinated humanity for ages. Some eclipses offer brief ...

Surveyor 1 successfully landed on the Moon on June 2, 1966, approximately 63 hours post-launch. The spacecraft, weighing 2,200 pounds (998 kilograms), landed within a 100-kilometer crater north of ...

The next full moon, a harvest moon, will be visible on Sept. 17 at 10:34 p.m., according to TimeandDate.com. Ahead of the full moon, the first quarter moon will appear on Sept. 11 at 2:06 a.m., ...

POCATELLO — The Idaho Museum of Natural History and Idaho State University campus have been selected for the out of this world opportunity to be home of one of the trees that orbited the moon during ...