Russia aims to build a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2036 to power its lunar program and a joint Russian-Chinese ...

While the term new moon is well established in astronomy, the phrase black moon is far more informal, yet it has gained ...

The Moon has long been treated as a geologically dead world, a frozen relic that finished erupting billions of years ago. A wave of new data is now challenging that assumption, pointing instead to a ...

Firefly plans to launch its lander toward the moon’s South Pole by the end of 2026. Assuming it arrives in one piece, the ...

Russian scientists have studied the lunar soil and discovered a microscopic particle of magnetite with traces of ancient volcanic gases. This was reported by the journal Nature Communication.The find ...

An unusual lunar event that happens only once every 33 months is occurring tonight — but you won’t be able to see it. A black moon will rise on Aug. 23 as the moon passes through its new moon phase at ...

The Moon has long been cast as a dead world, a place of dust, vacuum and brutal temperature swings that no living thing could endure. New research now suggests that picture is incomplete, hinting that ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered an unusual formation on Jupiter’s moon – and NASA says it may hold the secret to extraterrestrial ...

President Donald Trump enshrined the U.S. goal to put humans back on the moon by 2028 and defend space from weapon threats in ...

Researchers made a tantalizing discovery after they MacGyver-ed old data from a radar instrument on a satellite gathered 14 years ago from the Moon. When they used the mission data in a fresh new way, ...

The Moon's surface, photographed by Apollo astronauts. New data from China's Chang'e missions suggests there may have been active volcanoes on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago. (NASA ...