On the night between March 13 and 14, skywatchers in North and South America—as well as parts of Europe, Africa and ...

The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, could be the second commercial spacecraft to land on the moon this week.

This aims to map sources of water on the moon to shed light on the lunar water cycle and to guide future robotic and human missions. Once in orbit, the spacecraft—weighing 200kg and about the ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer will map the Moon’s water, tracking its location, form, and changes. Mission focuses on the Moon’s ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before. Follow for live ...

Astronomers are excited to be poring over the first ever detailed geological map of the moon’s south polar region, where India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar module, Vikram, touched down on August 23 ...

The full moon will put on a show during a total lunar eclipse in March, but be prepared to stay up late. For many, it ...

One is its High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper, or HVM 3, and the other is its Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM) infrared multispectral imager. The former will map the minerals and water ...

Dr Rory Evans performing optical assembly and alignment on a component of the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft (Department of Physics/University of Oxford/PA) Scientists are set to launch a spacecraft ...

In Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter, which Shindell edited, 19 authors tell the story of this coexistence between humanity and the celestial body through a series of ...

Scientists are set to launch a spacecraft this week to map water on the Moon, which could help future efforts to colonise its surface. The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft, which will launch from Nasa’s ...