This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

The Moon has long been cast as a dead world, a place of dust, vacuum and brutal temperature swings that no living thing could ...

I love to go for a walk with my dog. Sometimes we see the moon in the sky–even though it’s daytime. I asked my friend Michael Allen why that happens. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University.

The moon's orbit around Earth appears so regular that civilizations have based the month on lunar motion for thousands of years. However, the moon is actually creeping slowly away from Earth. So will ...

Sky lovers and astronomy enthusiasts assemble! If you missed the final full moon of 2025 on Dec. 4, there are plenty of ...

The Soviet Union's Luna 2 was the "first man-made object to make contact with another planetary body," Space.com said. The unmanned craft was also the first to reach the moon's surface. The rocket was ...

Everybody loves a good old-fashioned conspiracy theory and the granddaddy of them all is the belief that NASA somehow faked the Apollo 11 moon landing on a secret sound stage and that astronauts never ...