But much is unknown about the availability of water ice on the moon, or even what data is missing that could help fine-tune ...

potentially revealing the origins of Earth’s water. The Chang’e-6 probe, China’s second far-side lunar mission following ...

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...

Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveal rare meteorite fragments, indicating early asteroid impacts delivered water and organic compounds to the Moon and Earth, providing insight into the Solar System’s ...

Traditional mining expertise plus space startup innovation will equal the winning formula for lunar resource extraction.

In 2024, Chang'e 6 made history by bringing 1,935.3 grams of lunar far-side samples back to Earth. These samples were ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light on the lunar water ...

NASA launched a lunar orbiter Wednesday night that will trace the Moon's elusive water cycle. Lunar Trailblazer, a collaboration between NASA, Northern Arizona University, and Lockheed Martin Space, ...

An ambitious lunar mission is set to lift off today for a landing in March. The Intuitive Machines-2 (IM-2) mission carries Athena, a Nova-C class lunar lander, and is headed for the moon's south pole ...

If astronauts plan to spend more than a few days on the moon, they'll need to find some local resources. One of the most important of those resources is water. Scientists are pretty sure there is ...

Rocket crash meant to kick up lunar water; useful to future astronauts? Oct. 9, 2009 — -- NASA's LCROSS mission went plunging into a permanently shadowed crater near the moon's south pole this ...