NASA’s Moon program is undergoing a major revamp under the agency’s new leadership, and the lunar surface may be a busy place come next year. Jared Isaacman recently revealed an ambitious plan to land ...
One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...
Two lunar landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines, both based in Texas, were on the moon in March ...
A US Senate committee has directed Nasa to begin work on a Moon base “as soon as is practicable”. Under legislation advanced by the Senate lawmakers, the outpost would serve as a science laboratory ...
NASA recently announced that it’s targeting April 1 for the launch of its highly anticipated lunar-bound mission, Artemis II. Inside the Orion spacecraft lifted to space by the powerful SLS rocket ...
Wake up early enough Tuesday morning and you'll catch the moon turn "blood" red during a total eclipse.
Office of the Inspector General predicts future NASA astronauts will “likely encounter a life-threatening emergency in space.
Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...
This landscape was so convincingly alien that Apollo astronauts spent weeks here preparing for Moon missions. Can you guess where on Earth it is?
In the study of lunar eclipses, NASA’s research into the varying shades and hues of a total lunar eclipse provides fascinating insights into the impact of this astronomical event on Earth’s atmosphere ...