As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...

"The successful SCALPSS operation is a key step in gathering fundamental knowledge about landing and operating on the moon, ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Dust and rocks residing on the surface of the moon take a beating in space. Without a protective magnetosphere and atmosphere ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: Daichi Fujii (Hiratsuka City Museum) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Musi ...

The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 will plunge moon missions into darkness. What will happen to the lunar spacecraft?

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive ...

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...