A private moon mission planned for 2027 will be the first step towards commercial lunar mining of rare and expensive helium-3 ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...

The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years lit up the sky last night as humanity, forever fascinated with the Earth ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for ...

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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is wasting no time and is already drilling into the dusty regolith to study the ...