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

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

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

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

The moon is approximately 238,855 miles from Earth. On Monday, May 18, newly-discovered Asteroid 2026 JH2 is going to zoom ...

With the circumlunar flight of Artemis II, and the prospect of landing astronauts on the lunar surface within a few years, humanity is preempting an era where the imprint of visiting the Moon would be ...

Astronauts experience the overview effect, a profound connection to Earth. This feeling extends to ancient Newark Earthworks.

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

A newly discovered asteroid estimated to be about 62 feet wide will zoom near Earth on Monday, though it is not expected to ...

Asteroid 2026 JH2 sailed came within 50,000 miles of Earth - about a quarter of the distance to the Moon - and was only ...