Four small space companies plan to send rocket ships to the moon this year -- and two of them are already on their way. Intuitive Machines hopes to repeat its successful 2024 moon landing in 2025.

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 8:53 a.m. EDT (1353 GMT) but local moonrise ...

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same condition as when they were first deployed on the lunar surface.

The Nigerian paradox – talent in abundance, opportunity in scarcity – speaks to the title of this piece – the Moon’s loss as the Star’s gain, which derives from EzikeÍba Igbo proverbial ...

NASA has signed multi-billion-dollar contracts with SpaceX and with Blue Origin to ferry its Artemis astronauts to the craters of the Moon in the second half of the 2020s, but the timeline of ...

Even small-scale operations might disturb enough dust to create visible changes over time. By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the Moon.

Sixty-five years ago, the USSR shocked the world by sending the first robotic emissary from Earth to the Moon. The September 1959 impact of Luna 2 on northeastern Mare Imbrium was a stunning ...

There are more ways for people to travel to space than ever before, and the next few decades are likely to see the US and China sending humans to the Moon again. Both countries aim to set up long ...

But as space becomes accessible to more nations and corporations, we need to stop and ask ourselves what commercial activities we want to allow, including on the moon. Now is the time to create ...

We say goodbye to 2024 with a rare celestial event tonight, as skywatchers can look up and see a black moon. This phenomenon happens roughly once every 32 months, making it a special and ...