Mars is the Red Planet, but turns out the moon has the makings of a reddish cast, too. Yes, scientists have found rust on the moon. The question is: why?

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil ...

During the Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE), the spacecraft took the first measurements of this kind ...

LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...

Both quest-givers offer rewards for giving the moon rock to them in the final step of the mission. While one choice is indeed better than the other, there is a moral consequence you should keep in ...

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

He removed a piece of moon rock that Joe Biden kept in the Oval Office and said on his first day that American astronauts would “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.” He has not ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...