A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

For decades, the Moon was treated as a dead end, a place where flags and footprints marked the limits of human reach. Now ...

Scientists spend their careers watching slow change add up, then noticing the moment it stops feeling slow. That habit ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

The first full moon of 2026, known as the Wolf Moon, appeared on Saturday (Jan. 3), and skywatchers captured it in some ...

The Moon exerts a constant physical influence on Earth through gravity, light, and orbital interaction. Its mass shapes ocean ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

Researchers made a tantalizing discovery after they MacGyver-ed old data from a radar instrument on a satellite gathered 14 years ago from the Moon. When they used the mission data in a fresh new way, ...

The Moon's surface, photographed by Apollo astronauts. New data from China's Chang'e missions suggests there may have been active volcanoes on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago. (NASA ...

A growing fleet of privately built spacecraft is preparing to attempt robotic landings on the moon as humanity's exploration ...

Just over five years ago, on 22 February 2019, an unmanned space probe was placed in orbit around the Moon. Named Beresheet and built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, it was intended to be ...