The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

"This is an important step to a sustainable return to the moon." A bevy of space companies will lend a hand to NASA's moon goals under new contracts centered around the agency's upcoming Artemis ...

As Valentine’s Day approaches, I thought I’d share with you a lunar phenomenon created by the interplay of light and shadow on the Moon. It’s a delightful pattern of lunar peaks and ridges ...

Trump would get his share of the glory. Thus far, the space agency has not shown any indications of a pivot away from the moon and toward Mars. NASA recently issued some study contracts to ...

All but one of the lunar module pilots, in contrast, underwent deep and lasting personal transformations (some of which were profoundly unpleasant) after their Moon missions. Apollo 11 saw ...

The organization said that more than 90 important sites on the moon could risk destruction if space tourism is left unregulated. Robotic vehicles from Firefly Aerospace of Texas and Ispace of ...

Stare into the heart of our galaxy – the Milky Way, filled with billions of stars and mysterious deep-space wonders.

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The lander carries 10 NASA science and technology instruments aboard as part of the space agency ... plans to capture HD imagery of a total lunar eclipse from the moon when Earth will move ...

About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than ... an institute of the Universities Space Research Association, in an email.