A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar ...

American space company Firefly Aerospace was awarded a $176.7 million contract to fly some NASA payloads to the lunar south ...

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

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 ...

Simply put, the moon is useful in a way that no other astronomical object is. That's because it's the nearest, most easily accessible entity that is not Earth. If we want to understand everything from ...

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 ...

More NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace. Resilience tried to touch down on June 5 ...

The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project is an example of that kind of vision and imagination, and those who have contributed to the Project and to preceding efforts surely deserve our gratitude.

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, ...