If you've ever taken a few minutes out of your day to look at old footage and photographs of astronauts bouncing around on the Moon, you may notice a lack of stars in the background. Let's get the ...

A recent study by researchers at India’s Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) revealed that the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 caused an unexpected drop in the Moon’s nighttime surface temperature.

The moon may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study. Planetary scientists believe the moon's surface may have "remelted" around 4.35 billion years ago, masking much older ...

Oddly, the Moon's side facing towards Earth has a thinner crust than the one facing away, and according to NASA, scientists aren't sure why. At one time, the Moon was besieged by volcanic activity.

The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is “alive and well” but resting on its side a day after its white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the ...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft reached within 80 miles of the moon’s surface Monday before beginning its lunar orbit, as the capsule is set to break the space agency’s record for distance traveled ...

The lander, built by Intuitive Machines, touched down on the lunar surface at around 6:24 p.m. ET, overcoming a late-stage glitch with its onboard laser instruments.

Japan’s historic moon mission has ended with a successful face plant into the lunar surface. Although the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) touched down within 100 meters, or 328 feet ...

Trillions of pounds of water may be strewn across the moon, trapped in tiny glass beads that could have formed when asteroids struck the lunar surface, according to a new study.

A group of Chinese scientists want to build a magnetic launch system that spins up and then hammer throws cargo from the Moon's surface, shooting it towards Earth. Solar panels and nuclear energy ...

Moon's crater-scarred surface only shows HALF of the impacts it has received in its 4.5-billion-year lifetime, study claims. Experts say the crater-scarred moon only shows half the impacts it has ...

Polymer and metal samples developed in a lab at Dublin City University (DCU) will launch for the moon on Thursday, aboard a new lunar rover to study the way moon dust sticks to different surfaces.