Satellites have captured incredible views of the Feb. 17 annular solar eclipse as the moon's shadow swept across a remote ...

Low, winding ridges run across the Moon’s dark plains like faint seams in cooled wax. They are easy to miss in a wide photo. Up close, they look like the surface has been gently pushed from below. A ...

For a long time, people imagined the moon as a quiet, frozen world where nothing much happens anymore. But new research shows ...

Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

Scientists are proposing to build a laser in a crater on the moon to help future lunar missions land safely in the dark and find their way around. This ultra-stable light source could also help us ...

Japanese company iSpace's Hakuto-R lander captured amazing views of the the Earth during a solar eclipse and more during its journey to a moon landing attempt. Credit: iSpace ...

NASA planetary defense experts warn that up to 15,000 undetected asteroids could devastate a major city on Earth.

Longtime readers may remember a proposal to recreate the experience of standing on the the Moon inside a giant spherical ...

New observations of the Moon have now found small mare ridges (SMRs), faults located in the lunar maria, the dark basalt plains of the Moon. These are what we normally call seas, such as the Sea of ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting and reshaping itself. These features are among ...

"In Event of Moon Disaster" is a transfixing and deeply troubling short film built with AI. In it, President Nixon delivers a ...

A look at the debate over building a city on the Moon or Mars, covering scientific findings, mission timelines and challenges discussed on the Fiction Science podcast.