Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

Half a century after the first bootprints in lunar dust, the Moon has slipped from a central national project to a contested ...

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and brought ...

You might see the Moon as a grey, lifeless orb that orbits our planet each day. However, many researchers believe that the Moon is more alive than we believe. Further, they believe that the Moon's ...

The South Pole-Aitken Basin on the Moon formed from a gigantic impact about 4.3 billion years ago. But that impact may have changed everything about the Moon and explained why the lunar farside looks ...

Stories about the Moon are as old as storytelling itself. Virtually every ancient culture demonstrated some form of Moon worship. As scientists and astronomers learned more about this magnificent ...

For radio astronomers, Earth is a noisy place. Many modern electronics leak radio signals, which interfere with the long, faint wavelengths of light studied by radio observatories. And for decades, ...

The first manned moon landing is still one of the most remarkable achievements in human history. A man on the moon was, for much of our existence, a metaphor for an impossible achievement. Yet the ...

Today, Moon Express made history as the first private space company to request the U.S government to conduct a payload review of its spacecraft and plans leading to regulatory approval of a commercial ...