Using dust from Apollo 17, Scientists recreated the moon’s conditions and discovered that sunlight alone can generate water ...

The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. How can it keep ambitions for the Moon and ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

Skywatchers around the world turned their heads — and lenses to the skies to capture the beauty of April’s full Pink Moon — ...

Then in 2023, they spent another three months monitoring the skies, with the entirely unprecedented number of moons quickly ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...

China is already testing the tech. Bricks made from lunar soil simulants are undergoing durability tests on the Tiangong ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid ...

The Chang’e-6 mission returned soil samples from the South Pole–Aitken impact basin of the lunar farside, providing an opportunity to study the water contents of the farside mantle.

Scientists have long noted differences between the lunar near side and far side. While the near side periodically passes ...

There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...