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Humans and robotic landers, rovers and orbiters have all explored the moon in great detail over the past several decades. But there are still many mysteries about Earth’s companion that need to be solved. One of those puzzles concerns the moon’s inner core. Is it solid or liquid? How large …

Japanese start-up ispace’s Hakuto-R lunar lander began descending Wednesday toward the surface of the Moon, company officials said. The lander was on the backside of the Moon at about 1600 GMT Tuesday and was expected to land and begin sending signals back to Earth within 30 minutes, the company said …

The moon’s shadow will sweep across the globe in Western Australia, East Timor and Indonesia. The moon will pass in front of the sun creating an eclipse for certain regions of the planet. But this eclipse will be a much rarer celestial event than most, as it will be a …

The uncrewed mission around the moon will pave the way for a crewed flight test and future human lunar exploration. Nasa’s Artemis moon mission has successfully lifted off Earth, heralding a new era for lunar exploration which will eventually see humans return to the moon. After a series of failed …

A supercomputer simulation suggests it formed quite rapidly after a larger body hit Earth The Moon may have formed in hours, rather than in months or years as has been believed, according to an advanced astrophysical model devised by NASA scientists with the aid of supercomputers, and published last week …

The breakthrough experiment sees seeds germinate in lunar samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions decades ago.

The Moon may look like a big dry ball, but there’s more water up there than you might expect.

NASA on Tuesday delayed putting astronauts back on the moon until 2025 at the earliest, missing the deadline set by the Trump administration. The space agency had been aiming for 2024 for the first moon landing by astronauts in a half-century. In announcing the delay, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said …

NASA in April awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX with a sole $2.89 billion contract to build the next crewed lunar lander under its Human Landing Systems program. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover billions of dollars of NASA costs in exchange for a contract to build a …

The Trump administration is drafting a legal blueprint for mining on the moon under a new U.S.-sponsored international agreement called the Artemis Accords, people familiar with the proposed pact told Reuters. The agreement would be the latest effort to cultivate allies around NASA’s plan to put humans and space stations …

India has approved its third lunar mission months after its last one failed to successfully land on the moon, its space agency said on Wednesday, the latest effort in its ambitions to become a low-cost space power. The Chandrayaan-3 mission will have a lander and a rover, but not an …

A rare full moon, known as a “micro moon” will coincide with another rare event this week: Friday 13th. Our satellite will be at the furthest point in its orbit around the Earth. As a result, the moon will appear both smaller and dimmer in the night sky when viewed …

India lost contact with a spacecraft it was trying to land on the moon on Saturday, its space agency said, in a setback for the nation’s ambitious plans to become the first country to probe the unexplored lunar south pole. The lander of the Chandrayaan-2 moon mission was attempting a …

As India’s space agency prepares to make history by landing on the Moon later this week, many of the country’s citizens have been left in stitches after footage of an apparent moonwalk went viral. Just days before India’s lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 touches down on the Moon’s south pole on September …

Gazing down with a vaguely orange tint at a new fire blossoming on the Earth where a fire should not be, the Moon confided that it felt sad and powerless watching the Earth destroy itself. “At first it was small things. Losing a species here or there. Just careless, really. …

A Nasa facility in Alabama that developed the giant rocket for the Apollo program in the 1960s will play a key role in sending astronauts down to the Moon’s surface in 2024. The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville will lead the development of a vehicle that will land astronauts …

Over the last decade, scientists have established that as the inside of the Moon cooled, it shriveled up a like a raisin. That left it riven with cliffs called “thrust faults”, marked all over its surface. Now a new analysis, using data from Nasa missions, suggests that the Moon could …

India’s space agency wants to touch down its rover on the Moon’s south pole, an area on the Earth’s natural satellite where no one has gone before. The launch is scheduled for July. “All the [ISRO] missions, whatever we have had till now [to the moon], have all landed near …

Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft has crash-landed on the moon as the widely publicized event was being broadcast live. The spacecraft lost communication with ground control as it entered its final descent towards the moon on Thursday. The mission was declared a failure shortly after. “We definitely crashed on the surface of …