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

The Moon, long treated as a geologically inert relic, is still contracting and cracking. A growing body of peer-reviewed research now confirms that tectonic faulting on the lunar surface has occurred ...

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 ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

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 ...

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

Debris from the collision could have formed another moon of Saturn called Hyperion, and affected the tilt of Saturn itself.

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. The team’s discovery of how SMRs form ...

After a life studying impact craters and training astronauts, a geologist’s ashes were sent to the moon.

Cockeysville native and mission commander Reid Wiseman will lead NASA's Artemis II mission, traveling farther from Earth than humans have ever gone before.

NASA may wind up renting space at the SpaceX lunar city for its explorers and scientists at less cost than if it built one ...