Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than blocking particles, the magnetic field can funnel them along invisible lines that sometimes stretch all the way to the moon.

After a fairly eventful mission to the Moon's surface, Charles Duke left several items on the Moon, and a message to whoever might find them in the future.

When NASA’s Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon in 1969 as the first humans, the length and extent of their extravehicular venture were mostly dictated by the extreme environmental conditions on the surface of the moon.

Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource utilization. And at the forefront of these efforts has been a laser-sharp focus on finding the best way ...

NASA is closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4 after scientists identified a potential lunar impact path in 2032. While it won’t destroy the Moon, the event could reshape its surface and change how future lunar missions are planned.

Watch out Yosemite — the moon has its own impressive rock display. An enormous chunk of granite, measuring roughly 50 kilometers wide, may be buried beneath the lunar surface, researchers reported July 5 in Nature. Finding such a behemoth, by far the ...

The lunar surface might look like a barren wasteland of dust and rock, but scientists have just discovered signs of water all over the Moon's surface. This lightning bolt of discovery comes in the form of a new analysis of various mineralogy maps of the ...