The Moon’s surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometres across ...

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

The Italian Space Agency has picked European company Blue Skies Space to build a fleet of satellites around the moon to map ...

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Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...

Moon Knight celebrates his 50th anniversary this year, and to celebrate Marvel is releasing a double sized issue featuring ...

(CBS) – On this day in history, April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent a record-breaking 71 hours on the moon. The ...

“The moon’s orbit around the Earth is not perfect; it’s elliptical, or egg shaped. So, there are points throughout the year when it’s closer to the Earth and points when it’s farther ...

Our moon bears a lot of responsibility: Its gravitational pull on the planet influences ocean tides; it can tell us a lot about the history of our solar system; and the midcentury race to land on ...