The lunar landscape, once thought to be a barren wasteland, is now revealing its hidden treasures. Recent findings from NASA's VIPER mission have unveiled a startling revelation : water is present ...

A team led by researchers at Caltech in Pasadena are continuing to look for water on the moon, and their latest expedition could fetch them long-awaited answers. The Lunar Trailblazer mission ...

A new examination of a lunar meteorite revealed a mineral that could change our understanding of water on the moon, showing its crust was water-rich around 4 billion years ago.

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.

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a small but powerful satellite, is set to launch Wednesday evening. Its mission? To understand how water behaves on the moon’s surface.

China’s Chang’e 5 rover has found tiny glass beads containing water in an impact crater on the Moon. Samples collected from a 2020 mission found beads with water content as high as 2,000 parts ...

China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water that could hold the key to future lunar exploration, as the country pushes forward with its ...

Other experiments around that time provided more evidence of lunar water. Scientists detected hints of water in Apollo samples of volcanic glass, a remnant of the moon’s fiery beginnings.

But NASA says, now, all the hardware is working as it's supposed to, and Lunar Trailblazer is ready to head to the moon and investigate what kind of water really is there. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palca.

Ten U.K. finalists have been announced in the Aqualunar Challenge, an effort to develop tech that can turn moon ice into drinkable water.