Every year, the moon, Earth's reliable celestial companion for 4.5 billion years, is getting 1.5 inches away. The distance to ...

Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth.

They built a tiny particle accelerator in a vacuum to launch "mock solar wind" at the samples for multiple days, simulating the effects of the real solar wind hitting the moon for 80,000 years. Then, ...

The moon's gravity causes high and low tides, something known as the tidal force. As the tidal force shifts Earth's mass, it ...

The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought to create this wispy gas envelope; tiny meteoroids hitting the surface and ...

"With only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of creating water." Future moon astronauts may find water more accessible than ...

November's full moon is going to be something special. Not only is it a supermoon, meaning Earth's lunar satellite will be slightly brighter and closer to us, but it's the last supermoon we'll see for ...

Along with astronomical influences, there are also meteorological influences that can cause tides to be even higher, as seen ...