You don't look a day over 4.35 billion! Here's the moon's anti-aging secret
Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing old craters.
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NASA delays Artemis II human moon mission once again as it wraps up heat shield investigation
The mission to take four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back, previously targeting a launch at the end of 2025, has been delayed until at least April, 2026.
China launches new crew to its space station as it seeks to expand exploration
China declared a “complete success” after it launched a new three-person crew to its space station early Wednesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space.
NASA's chief is worried about China getting back to the moon first. Here's why
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he trusts SpaceX, despite Elon Musk's increasingly controversial profile.
NASA has been asked to create a time zone for the moon. Here's how it would work
A new lunar time zone is all about ensuring the success of future, multinational missions to the moon.
Odysseus moon lander will cease working after sideways landing
Intuitive Machines, the company that built and flew the spacecraft, said it will continue to collect data until sunlight no longer shines on the solar panels, expected to happen Tuesday morning.
Private lunar lander returns U.S. to the moon 50 years later. Here's what to know
The Houston-based company has pulled off the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It's America's first soft landing in decades.
In latest lunar landing trial, Intuitive Machines hopes to get U.S. back to the moon
If successful, the uncrewed spacecraft would be the first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years, and would mean one giant leap for the commercial space sector.
Japan's space agency says it may now have clues about the origins of the moon
An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing lunar rocks, an achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan space agency official said
The Japanese moon lander gets back to work after the sun reaches its solar panels
A Japanese moon explorer is up and running Monday after several tense days without the sunlight it needs to generate power.