Here's why the astronauts have brushed up on lunar geology, even though they won't land.

Christina Koch and her Artemis II crewmates have been training since 2023 for the mission that will return humans to lunar ...

There's a bright side to every situation. In 2032, the moon itself might have a particularly bright side if it is blasted by ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different.

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Nasa researchers studying Apollo-era lunar soil discovered that meteorites from the Moon provided only a small fraction of ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission’s moon samples uncover naturally formed nanotubes once thought possible only in labs.

Earlier research held that meteorite impacts from the solar system's early days were a major source of Earth's water.

For the Moon itself, the story is different. The Moon has far less water than Earth, but for such a dry world it’s important.