Christina Koch and her Artemis II crewmates have been training since 2023 for the mission that will return humans to lunar ...

Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite ...

Here's why the astronauts have brushed up on lunar geology, even though they won't land.

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

A lunar meteorite is revealing some unknown secrets about the Moon's volcanic history. The meteorite, Northwest Africa 16286, was uncovered in Africa in 2023. Researchers estimate that it is the ...

For the Moon itself, the story is different. The Moon has far less water than Earth, but for such a dry world it’s important. Most of it lies frozen in dark polar craters, and these icy spots could ...

Once moon rocks were returned to Earth in the Apollo missions, however, a problem arose. Their isotopic compositions were found to be nearly identical to those of rocks from Earth's mantle and crust.

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why lunar rocks show signs of strong magnetism when the moon itself has no global magnetic field today. New simulations suggest the answer may lie in a ...

It's been more than 50 years since astronauts last went to the moon, and yet few NASA missions stir the kind of excitement that the Apollo program once did. But now, NASA has new moon plans. The ...

The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and space scientists quite like Europa, an ice-shrouded world that is thought to ...