"The presence of an LVZ at the lower base of the lunar mantle may be most readily explained by partial melt in an ...

NASA engineers at Johnson Space Center are designing a new lunar rover prototype called the Ground Test Unit. The space ...

Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa. The icy moon could potentially host alien life – and ...

Because the impact basins were often the lowest places on the Moon’s surface, they would begin to fill with erupting lava. The lava was similar to the basalt that erupts on Earth and, like on Earth, ...

NASA's about to launch a huge spacecraft to a world harboring voluminous seas.

COVID-19 created chaos on Earth, but a new study suggests its impact extended far beyond our planet. The surface of the moon ...

This facility, located near Cologne, Germany, features 900 tons of crushed volcanic rock to mimic the lunar surface.

How far away is the moon? But the distance between Earth and our closest neighbor is more nuanced than a single number. "The ...

Before departure, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raised the American flag on the moon, an image that demonstrated American engineering prowess in the dynamic Space Race against the Soviet Union, in ...

NASA is developing a new Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) for the Artemis missions to the Moon, enabling astronauts to explore ...

As we concretise plans to build a colony on the Moon, real-time communication with that space real estate still eludes us, ...

Is it possible for scientists to recreate the moon on Earth? The answer to this question is being explored by the European ...