NASA is waiting to conduct a fueling test of the SLS rocket on the pad in early February before confirming a launch date.

With Artemis II, SLS could become the most powerful rocket ever to launch humans. Its four main engines burn roughly 700,000 ...

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

Chinese New Year marks the start of the New Year based on the lunisolar calendar, which falls on the first new moon between ...

Because the moon has less gravity than Earth does, time passes slightly differently there. This effect was first predicted by ...

A new moon on Sunday, Jan. 18, means dark skies and some of the best stargazing conditions of the year. Here are the bright stars, constellations and objects to see.

Methane released in exhaust could move from one lunar pole to the other in less than two lunar days, with roughly half of it eventually depositing in areas that may preserve the original chemical ...

The U.S. space agency and the Department of Energy will work together to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface in the ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study.

Our nearest neighbor, the moon, is still something of a mystery to us. For decades, scientists have wondered why it appears ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...