Two valleys extending away from a giant crater suggest that upcoming Artemis missions are more likely to sample ancient lunar ...

Constructing solar arrays out of moon dust would reduce launch costs and make lunar bases more plausible, according to a new ...

Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover called MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform), which was built by the ...

Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.

The astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 lunar mission became the first humans to directly view the far side of the moon during ...

Intuitive Machines got its Athena lunar lander on the moon’s south pole Thursday on a mission with NASA payloads, but tipped ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain whether its Athena lander was upright near the moon’s south pole — standing 15 feet (4.7 meters) tall — or lying sideways like its first spacecraft ...

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Preliminary analyses revealed distinct differences in density, structure, and chemical composition between the Chang'e 6 ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...