Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.

A new study has concluded that Earth's mini-moons may not have come from the asteroid belt as we once thought, but a source far closer to home. According to the team, Earth likely has around 6.5 ...

When the first astronauts walked on the moon as part of the Apollo Program, the concept of lunar habitats ceased being the ...

Spanning 345 miles (555 kilometers), this lunar mare is visible to the naked eye, though a pair of 10x50 binoculars will reveal more of the craggy region surrounding the lunar sea.

In a major achievement for both Firefly Aerospace and the future of lunar exploration, the Blue Ghost lander has officially reached lunar orbit. This momentous event, which took place on February ...

First, the distribution and duration of lunar mare volcanism are introduced. Based on the latest mapping of lunar mare deposits (Fig. 1), the authors determined the surface area of all exposed ...

The "Golden Handle" appears each month when the sun illuminates a mountain range lining a vast impact crater. Saturday night ...

The moon’s average 382,000 km distance from our planet is not consistent throughout the month, however, since the lunar orbit is not circular, but elliptical, ranging as far away as 406,000 km ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side. The nearside is dominated by the lunar mare — the vast ...

The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At least, that's what planetary scientists who have discovered 266 lunar ...