The U.S. and China are each planning to land in the Moon’s Shackleton crater this year. Whoever gets there first will secure ...

Plus NOAA's GOES-19 satellite spies the lunar disk crossing the face of our parent star.

The cold, dark craters on the moon would be perfect for a laser to help with landings and navigation, scientists say ...

Elon Musk isn't the first person to propose the use of mass drivers on the moon. He's following in the footsteps of space ...

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 ...

A massive upheaval in the Saturnian system could have also led to the moon Hyperion.

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

Smithsonian scientists have mapped thousands of young ridges across the lunar maria, which are large, basaltic plains on the ...

For more than a half-century, the moon has orbited the Earth without a close human witness, its pitted, rocky surface ...

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.

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal ...

On February 17, an annular solar eclipse, known as the “Ring of Fire,” occurred over Antarctica, creating a striking visual, ...