From craters to ancient lava plains and traces of past missions, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captures the Moon in breathtaking 4K detail.

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

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

“An exciting implication of our study is that seismic shaking, caused by moonquakes generated by movement on young faults like the Lee-Lincoln fault, probably result in landslides and boulder falls ...

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.

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 ...

Radio astronomers like a bit of peace and quiet, so they're sending an historic first radio telescope to the Moon. To block ...

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

South Korea's space ambitions keep growing. The nation wants to build a moon base by 2045, The Korea Times reported on ...

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

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, ...

"This is the most spectacular find of the Lunar Orbiter program," said Geologist John McCauley of the U.S. Geological Survey. "If it were fully visible on the side of the moon ...