The far side of the Moon has turned out to be far stranger than many planetary scientists expected, and the latest surprise is hiding in the dust under a Chinese rover’s wheels. Instead of behaving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Moon's largest impact feature, the South Pole–Aitken basin, is so named because it stretches between Aitken crater and the ...

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an uncrewed NASA probe, captures images of Mare Orientale, a lunar site never seen directly with human eyes. Credit: NASA GSFC / Arizona State University / Getty ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission just nailed a landing on the far side of the Moon, turning a once purely theoretical goal into a working sample-return pipeline. I see this touchdown as the anchor for a ...

When you read the new lunar chronology work, the first thing that comes to mind is how unglamorous the revolution appears. No ...

There is a signal, born in the earliest days of the cosmos. It’s weak. It’s faint. It can barely register on even the most sensitive of instruments. But it contains a wealth of information about the ...

Something to look forward to: The proposed Lunar Crater Radio Telescope would not replace the full spectrum of research conducted by Earth-based radio observatories, but it does represents a vital ...