It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon’s surface to begin ...

A free interactive Moon Phases & Eclipses Simulator and the detailed 2026 full moon calendar are offering educators fresh ways to teach lunar science. The simulator lets students visualize orbital ...

Looking at the best games for building lunar settlements, and how they compare to NASA's real-life plans for Artemis Base ...

Titan is the largest of Saturn’s 292 known moons, by far. It’s also the only other cosmic body apart from Earth confirmed to ...

Io is unlike anything else in the solar system. Its surface is constantly reshaped by extreme volcanic activity driven by powerful gravitational forces. Despite its frozen environment, it remains one ...

NASA has launched four astronauts on a pioneering journey around the moon—the Artemis II mission. Follow our coverage here. As the U.S. government slashes its spending on basic science, one thing ...

The last time human beings took pictures in the vicinity of the moon the world was an awfully analog place. Apollo astronauts would hand carry cameras into space and hand deliver them back to Earth, ...

After staring at the Moon for almost eight hours Monday, the commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission finally ran out of ways to describe what he was seeing. “No matter how long we look at this, our ...

The first images from Artemis II reveal what the moon looks like just 7,000 km from the surface—and confirm that NASA is ready to return to Earth’s satellite. NASA has finally released the first ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission, carrying four astronauts on an out-of-this-world journey, flew around the Moon on Monday. The crew members took turns describing the stunning landscape below and captured ...

NASA’s four Artemis astronauts swung behind the moon and are headed home, in a journey that shattered space travel distance records and brought people the closest they’ve been to the lunar surface in ...

New shades of brown and green in the rings of impact craters. Rugged terrain and long shadows along their rims. Earth rising over the moon’s horizon and the glow of lofted dust. These are observations ...