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 ...

As of Saturday, May 23, the Moon phase is First Quarter. Tonight, 48% of the moon will be be lit up, according to NASA's ...

A new study, published in Science Advances, has refined some important details about the moon's largest and oldest impact crater, which stretches more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) on the far side of ...

NASA over the weekend released thousands more photos from last month’s Artemis II mission around the moon.

Nuclear power plants are safer than many suspect. But putting reactors in space is a concept with a checkered history. One ...

A race to build a permanent base on the Moon is underway, and after the successful Artemis II mission, we are a step closer to that dream. Space agencies, including NASA, have also zeroed in on a ...

Aug. 5 could see the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched in early 2025 crash into the moon. Here’s why — and what ...

The Artemis 2 astronauts saw several impact flashes on the moon during their epic flyby, observations that have excited scientists and mission planners alike.

Most of us have probably seen a shooting star, but our meteor knowledge likely stops there, with all the gaps filled by myths ...

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as "co-orbitals," these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with ...