When NASA looks for people to send toward the Moon, the search often leads through the high desert of Northern Arizona. The ...

When a NASA scientist finally cracked open a cache of 50-year-old lunar soil, the expectation was to refine old models, not ...

NASA says they are pushing back the launch of the Artemis II rocket's trip to the moon due to extremely cold weather in the U ...

American geologist and astronaut Harrison Hagan Schmitt takes rock samples from the surface of the moon during America's last lunar landing mission of the 20th century, Apollo 17, December 1972.

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ancient mantle and continents, and the early beginnings of the moon. When ...

NASA research using Apollo lunar regolith data refines the Moon’s impact record and places limits on meteorite contributions to Earth’s water over geologic time.

For the Moon itself, the story is different. The Moon has far less water than Earth, but for such a dry world it’s important. Most of it lies frozen in dark polar craters, and these icy spots could ...

The Artemis 2 astronauts—and the historical keepsakes they’re bringing with them—will travel farther from Earth than any have ...