The magnetic barrier that protects Earthlings from radiation almost collapsed some 565 million years ago. Here’s what saved ...

Set to orbit Jupiter and make over 40 flybys of Europa, this spacecraft is built to analyze the moon’s subsurface ocean ...

NASA’s orbiter snapped crisp images of where a private spacecraft crashed, revealing telltale marks of disturbed lunar soil.

NASA is preparing to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-14 mission its Arcstone cubesat, a 6U satellite that will attempt to ...

"Being off even a little bit represents hundreds or thousands of kilometers in distance on the surface of the Earth." ...

On a clear night, the moon you gaze upon looks the same as it looked for the first humans that walked Earth—the same ...

Radiation gets absorbed and then reemitted by the lunar surface, which could also harm astronauts in the long run. “Being on the surface generally, even when the sun isn't throwing crap at us ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has captured dramatic landscapes of the Moon since it was first launched in 2009. A New Moon Rises showcased those breathtaking images from Apollo ...

The loss of the Resilience spacecraft by Ispace repeated a crash into the moon in 2023 of the company’s first robotic lunar landing mission. By Kenneth Chang This is the third moon landing ...

The private ispace Resilience lander will land on the moon at 3:17 p.m. EDT today (June 5), but only if the company pursues ...

PLANCK is one of the scientific missions of the European Space Agency, devoted to observing the cosmic microwave background radiation with unprecedented accuracy. One of the key factors for the ...

A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has outlined the decade-long development and testing of what was originally known as the Europa Lander prototype—a partially autonomous ...