Simply put, the moon is useful in a way that no other astronomical object is. That's because it's the nearest, most easily ...

The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander on the moon was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: Space.com | ...

If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new analysis. Researchers say the Moon debris would threaten spacecraft in ...

A new study by astronomers at the University of Western Ontario suggests and asteroid strike in 2032 could create hundreds of ...

China, in collaboration with Russia and other countries, has also set a goal of building a lunar base by 2045. India also has ...

But it wasn't until a NASA lunar orbiter investigated the moon in 2013 that astronomers began to suspect that the exosphere's existence depends on those space rock assaults.

U.K. scientists plan to send a small spacecraft to the moon's far side to detect faint radio signals emitted shortly after ...

For NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been orbiting the moon since 2009, it will be time to batten down the hatches.

The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter collected the radar data in 2010 by using wavelengths to detect what was below the surface. Analyzing the data, the researchers found empty space at an ...

Joining the world's biggest economies who want to conquer the Moon is South Korea, which recently released a roadmap to ...

Lunar Orbiter 1 became the first spacecraft to take a picture of the Earth from the Moon, preempting the famous "Earthrise" photograph of Apollo 8 by more than two years. But this Lunar Orbiter image, ...