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

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...