"Over time, the rays will darken to the shade of the surrounding regolith as the material is exposed to space weathering," the LROC statement reads. It's also notably small, as the team refers to it ...

As of Monday, Dec. 1, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. This means 83% of the moon is lit up tonight, according to NASA's ...

Something weird is going on on the far side of the Moon — and Artemis astronauts are heading straight there. The giant South Pole–Aitken basin, a 4.3-billion-year-old scar, isn’t just an impact crater ...

The moon's heavily cratered surface serves as a testament to how Earth's closest celestial neighbor has become a figurative magnet for space rocks during its 4.5 billion-year history. One of the best ...

The University of Texas at Arlington is teaming up with NASA to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night this Saturday. At the free event, held in the UTA Observatory from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m., ...

Don't miss the third quarter moon rising with Saturn and the constellation Pisces in the eastern sky at midnight tonight! July's third quarter moon phase occurs at 8:38 EDT (0038 GMT) on July 17, ...

American astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a ...

American astronauts who return to the moon's surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a ...