In a historic achievement for lunar exploration, China’s Chang’e-6 mission successfully returned the first-ever samples from the moon’s far side in 2024. These samples, collected from the South ...

NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads ...

Io isn’t just another moon, it’s the most volcanically active body in the entire solar system. Orbiting Jupiter, Io is ...

A source of fascination for scientists are the volcanoes on distant icy moons, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. These moons have liquid water underground that erupts to the ...

Researchers say that astronauts visiting the moon could drink water thanks to an unlikely source: Ancient volcanoes. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.

China's Chang'e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon, discovered extremely rare water-rich ...

Scientists spotted a piece of rock following planet Earth earlier this year, but older photos show it's actually been ...

PN7, earth's second moon, is a quasi-moon — a celestial object that travels almost exactly in sync with Earth. Researchers at ...

As of Tuesday, Oct. 28, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent. There will be 39% of the moon lit up tonight, according to NASA's ...

A newly identified “quasi-moon” is being described as a second moon in Earth’s orbit, and it could stay there for decades.