In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and brought ...

The Moon our satellite companion that illuminates our path during the night on a telescope detailed view with the Lunar craters and seas. An amazing space scene on our lovely Solar System A study led ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 spacecraft was the first to land on the moon. It touched down on the lunar surface in ...

The following is an excerpt from Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow by Christopher Cokinos. The book will be published April 2, 2024, by Pegasus Books.

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we still don’t know about it. One of these unsolved questions is its origin story. We think the moon ...

Some parts of the moon are more interesting than others, especially when searching for future places for humans to land and work. There are also some parts of the moon about which we know less than ...

The Moon has a long, chaotic geological history almost as old as Earth itself. Every crater, rock and speck of dust on the Moon tells a story, but because it's not exactly close to our planet, this ...

A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the ...