Placing ultrastable lasers inside some of the coldest, darkest lunar craters could help scientists establish a GPS-like ...

They rank among the darkest and coldest places in the solar system: Hundreds of lunar craters, many of them at the moon's ...

Scientists propose ultrastable lunar lasers inside permanently shadowed craters to enable GPS-like navigation and precision ...

Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve is a feast for the eyes. With barren lava fields and craters dotting the rugged landscape, it projects a certain lunar-like feel — so much so that it ...

Long before the full moon rises, shifting sunlight transforms the lunar surface into one of the sky's best telescope targets.

Permanently shadowed craters have long interested scientists. Could a new laser system help future spacecraft navigate the ...

In a discovery that is reshaping the global lunar race, Indian scientists have confirmed the presence of significant ...

The rare isotope helium-3 is one of Earth’s most precious commodities—so precious, in fact, that it might prove profitable to ...

What new methods can be used to provide safe landing sites for Artemis astronauts on the lunar south pole? This is what a ...

Elon Musk’s bombshell decision to freeze plans to begin building a human colony on Mars, in favor of fostering a Moon city, is a cosmic mistake, says a top Mars scholar.

Before NASA sends the Artemis IV crew to land people on the Moon, they are planning to send another unmanned fleet armed with ...