With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...

Moonquakes produced seismic waves that attenuated, or lost energy, very slowly since the lunar surface was dry with minimal ...

The halo was first glimpsed in 1972 when Apollo 16 astronauts placed an ultraviolet camera developed by Dr. George Carruthers on the Moon.

Artemis III is planned for 2027. If it stays on schedule, that's the mission that will put humans back on the moon for the first time in 55 years. The crew plans to touch down in one of 13 planned ...

The mission is the second in the Artemis program, which aims to land astronauts and, ultimately, their long-term presence on ...

NASA has announced plans to send astronauts on a ten-day trip around the Moon as soon as next year. The US space agency on ...

NASA officials say the first crew under its Artemis program will fly around the moon no later than April of 2026, and possibly as early as February.

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...

The US space agency has announced a new schedule for Artemis 2 that will lay the groundwork for the first human landing since ...

Two moons orbit Mars, and one of them may be on a path to extinction. However, will this prediction actually come to pass? Here's more about what's happening.

And NASA is now holding online events both today (Sept. 23) and Wednesday (Sept. 24) to discuss the Artemis 2 mission, which ...

For years, scientists have treated the Moon as a relic — a silent witness to the Solar System’s ancient past, geologically ...