A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent lunar samples brought back by China’s Chang’e 6 mission have confirmed a crucial piece ...

The view is of the moon's far side, an area not visible to Earth, and shows our planet rising and setting behind the celestial body. Having traveled 2.2 million miles, all 10 payloads Blue Ghost ...

On Sunday (March 2), Blue Ghost — built and operated by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace — became just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon, coming to rest in the near ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.

Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which lasted about 14 days, or the equivalent of one lunar day, marks the longest commercial ...

The first study on the Moon samples brought back by the Chinese Chang'e-6 mission show that the Moon's far side was just as molten as the near one eons ago.

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 ...

But the real treat was the footage beamed back to mission control of the moon's mysterious far side, only seen firsthand by 24 people, all Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and 1970s. The video ...

This week's footage is some of its coolest yet, thanks to its detailed depiction of the Moon's far side. The Moon is tidally locked to Earth, meaning one side always faces us. On the one hand ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...