NASA’s repaired Artemis II moon rocket is rolling back toward Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center ahead of an April 1 launch attempt, the earliest date cited publicly as teams work toward a new try ...

New observations by a team of US astronomers have cast fresh doubt on whether the lunar surface could host abundant water ice. Publishing their results in Science Advances, a team led by Shuai Li at ...

Look out for the moon's upturned crescent, now just 2%-lit, above the evening star of Venus, as light reflected from Earth's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals active volcanoes on Io in unprecedented detail thanks to an innovative technique.

This month's new moon occurs at 9:23 p.m. EDT on March 18 (0223 GMT on March 19) as the lunar disk passes between the sun and Earth. Around this time, the lunar disk is invisible from our perspective, ...

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have resolved a long-standing debate about the strength of the Moon’s ancient magnetic field, finding that brief, intense ...

Scientists from Oxford University finally explain why some Moon rocks show intense ancient magnetism. Titanium-rich rocks caused brief bursts in the lunar magnetic field.

In this new analysis, researchers from the University of Oxford in the UK conclude that these signatures could be evidence of sudden, temporary bursts in magnetism, brought on by ancient geological ...

Artemis II Moon Mission moves toward launch as NASA weighs Orion heat shield concerns, schedule pressure, and deep-space ambitions.

A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon’s surface today. The Moon’s familiar surface tells a story of both ancient violence and ...

A pending contractor switchup marks another blow to Boeing, which is struggling to prove itself as a reliable strategic partner to NASA.