Mars is the Red Planet, but turns out the moon has the makings of a reddish cast, too. Yes, scientists have found rust on the moon. The question is: why?

Dust and rocks residing on the surface of the moon take a beating in space. Without a protective magnetosphere and atmosphere like Earth's, the lunar surface faces continual particle bombardment from ...

Scientists found that some slopes on the Moon stay cold enough to hold ice. This could expand water sources for future space ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

showing us details that have only been hinted at previously." The mission could also reveal why the moon has water in the first place. Possible reasons include comets and "wet asteroids" crashing ...

Another source might be comets or meteorites, which may have delivered water to the moon over billions of years. The exact amount of lunar water remains uncertain, but it is potentially hundreds ...

Scientists have long predicted that whatever water might be present on the moon would most likely be found at the lunar poles. However, this new study uses the Chandrayaan-3 data to suggest that ...

several universities and laboratories across the world in hopes of demystifying the "lunar water cycle." "All these obviously have big implications for how we think of the moon as a body," said ...

With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar landers are currently on their way to the moon. Such a surge of exploration has ...

Future astronauts traveling to the moon may have easier access to life-sustaining water and extractable ice than previously thought, according to new research. A team of scientists led by Durga ...

Once enough of them have been delivered and deployed on the ... itself to map the distribution of the different forms of water on the moon's surface. Discoveries made during its two-year mission ...