The Moon, our constant celestial companion, is drifting away from Earth at a slow but measurable rate. According to a ...

NASA’s renewed interest in lunar exploration has captivated the imagination of space enthusiasts and scientists alike. While many assume that the return to the Moon is simply a nostalgic venture, the ...

The moon is still shrinking as it cools off, causing its surface to wrinkle. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The moon may still ...

There are many remarkable things happening out in space right now. But Monday’s much-hyped “super blue moon” isn’t one of them – at least not according to astronomers. “I think this is completely made ...

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Joseph Silk is not a fantasist or science fiction author. He holds a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University and taught astrophysics and cosmology at Oxford University. But what he wrote in his ...

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

In a move straight out of science fiction, NASA's latest scheme for moon and Mars habitats is as wild as it gets--mushroom houses. Courtesy of redhouse studios/NASA NASA is cooking up a plan that’s ...

Seems to me that processing tonnes of lunar regolith will involve lots of messy details that we don't know about yet. That's the real advantage to sending an excavator to the moon and running it.

A Senate Commerce Committee hearing sounded the alarm over the U.S.-China space race, emphasizing American dominance off ...