The U.S. and China are each planning to land in the Moon’s Shackleton crater this year. Whoever gets there first will secure ...

NASA hit a snag early Tuesday during a critical test of its enormous moon rocket, raising new questions about whether it will be ready to send four astronauts on a journey around the moon in less than ...

NASA and Japan are quietly lining up behind one of the riskiest bets in modern lunar exploration: a mission that will try to drill into the Moon’s frozen south pole and prove that water can sustain ...

A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher in the early hours of Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ...

NASA announced it has delayed the launch of Artemis II, a mission that will send four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon and back to Earth, after engineers noticed a liquid hydrogen leak in ...

When a NASA scientist finally cracked open a cache of 50-year-old lunar soil, the expectation was to refine old models, not overturn them. Instead, the ancient grains pointed away from a popular story ...