Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar ...

In the coming weeks, Artemis II will send humans around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Could it be a ...

NASA will conduct a second "wet dress rehearsal" this week before announcing a date to launch astronauts on its Artemis II ...

A test of NASA's towering Space Launch System rocket uncovered another issue with the vehicle meant to launch astronauts on a ...

The billionaire announced that the moon is the "overriding priority" for securing civilization's future, despite his long-standing focus on Mars colonization.

On February 9–10, 2026, the last quarter moon rises in Libra alongside stars Spica and Arcturus, offering telescope observations of lunar craters and Montes Appenninus.

Elon Musk’s ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat for a rather nearer and more achievable goal – ...

Almost as tall as a football field, NASA's Space Launch System rocket and capsule stack traveled slowly—just under one mile per hour—out to the Artemis II launchpad, its temporary home at the Kennedy ...

More than 50 years after Apollo 17, NASA’s Artemis II will send four astronauts on a 10-day loop around the Moon to test the agency’s deep-space hardware.

In A Nutshell Scientists have mapped 2,634 fault segments across the Moon’s volcanic plains that could generate moonquakes These faults are consistent with shallow moonquakes detected by Apollo ...

Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He’s just one of four living moonwalkers and the oldest remaining astronaut still making trips around the sun.

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...