The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

Similar functionally to a moon phase complication, the Earth phase flips the script, showing the Earth as seen from the surface of the moon. Similar to how we perceive the moon from the terra ...

Mars is an interesting planet with many unexpected features. For one, it is not a sphere, but rather what is called a ...

In the Moon chapter of Turn Left at Orion we walk you through the lunar month, pointing out good telescopic targets. We had to choose an orientation for the charts, so we went with north up and west ...

There are a couple of reasons to check out the upcoming harvest moon. First, it's a supermoon, meaning it will appear ...

"I believe that [Apollo program director George Low] certainly was concerned, and rightly so, that we could have orbited the moon ahead of the Americans. We had everything for it. That is why he ...

Over the last few decades, planetary scientists have been steadily adding to the list of moons in our solar system that may harbor interior oceans either currently or at some point in their past.

Scared that the Russians might beat them Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin climbed into the lunar module The Eagle and headed for the moon, but not everything went to plan. Buzz Aldrin has a plan for ...

"I believe that [Apollo program director George Low] certainly was concerned, and rightly so, that we could have orbited the moon ahead of the Americans. We had everything for it. That is why he ...

The moon features prominently in a quilt created by Laura Mosher for the 2016 International Quilt Festival. Now a new quilt challenge is inviting students and crafters to create lunar-themed quilt ...