Around December 2032, the Moon might host a very violent guest. A 60-meter-wide asteroid known as 2024 YR4 currently has a 4.3% chance of slamming into the lunar surface. It sounds like small odds, but in the vastness of space,

The U.S. is the only country to have ever sent humans to the moon.

The familiar gray disk in our sky has long been framed as a fossil world, frozen in time since the early days of the solar system. A growing body of evidence now paints a very different picture, one in which the Moon is still shifting,

The Artemis program’s eventual goal is to set up the first ever lunar space station, which will orbit the moon. It would host cutting-edge research and might later serve as a pit stop for humans headed to Mars. For now, these feats remain purely hypothetical.

Several robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon can take detailed pictures of its surface, so why send people around the Moon? A planetary geologist explains the benefits.

Japan's space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system—although the probe appears to be lying ... NASA released on Tuesday ...

At the height of the Cold War, US Air Force officials proposed a terrifying plan to help America demonstrate its superiority over the Soviet Union: detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile ...

As NASA prepares for its first moon mission in 50 years, GRU Space is taking reservations for a proposed lunar hotel.