The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.

Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...

If all goes to plan, Athena will land on a plateau just 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the moon's south pole ... hop down into a permanently shadowed crater." That target crater, known as ...

Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he ...

Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

A new study explains how two deep canyons formed very quickly on the moon during an asteroid impact. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny ...

If all goes to plan, Athena will land on a plateau just 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the moon's south pole ... "We'll hop down into a permanently shadowed crater." That target crater, known as ...

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander reached lunar orbit on Thursday (Feb. 13) and snapped some photos to commemorate ...