NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer ...

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Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...

COVID-19 wrought – and continues to wreak – havoc on the Earth. According to a new study, its effects were not limited to our planet; the surface of the Moon may have been indirectly affected by the ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission successfully makes a Moon landing, marking a milestone for NASA and its commercial partners.

Jeff Bezos’ company will launch at Blue Moon MK1 robotic lander from Cape Canaveral to get the rover to the moon to hunt for ice.

Over at the moon, things are busy this week as a lunar mission gets to work on its science research. The Blue Ghost mission from Firefly Aerospace performed a picture-perfect landing 10 days ago, ...