Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...

Space agencies are no longer talking about visiting the moon, they're planning on living on it. But all of these grand ambitions rest on a surprisingly fragile foundation. How do you store energy in a ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it ...

In 1965, four years before Neil Armstrong even set foot on the Moon, the SNAP-10A became the first and only US ...

Former NASA astronauts are worried about the next manned mission because of a risky flaw. What could this issue be?

A California-based startup says it is now accepting reservations for what it describes as the world’s first hotel on the Moon. The company, GRU Space, is asking prospective guests to place refundable ...

The latest blueprint for a permanent outpost on the Moon is not just about planting more flags in gray dust. It sketches a ...

A European team has taken a bold step in space robotics with a new mission concept, published in Science Robotics, designed ...

AI-Driven Robotics for Autonomous Space Exploration. One day, space exploration might make use of astronauts living ...

NASA has already set a date for a mission that will study how space radiation affects humans on the surface of the Moon.

NASA has announced a trio of new scientific experiments it plans to conduct on the Moon as part of its ongoing Artemis program. These payloads will include imager systems to test the temperature of ...

As they roll across shadowed regions of the moon's surface, future lunar rovers could develop hazardous buildups of electric charge on their wheels. Through new analysis published in Advances in Space ...