Artemis II, NASA's first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years, represents a shift from short visits toward sustained exploration, where understanding lunar geology and resources becomes as important as the engineering that gets astronauts there.

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are on a path back to the moon. But in East Texas, not everyone was aware of the historic moment unfolding.

The Moon's surface, photographed by Apollo astronauts. New data from China's Chang'e missions suggests there may have been active volcanoes on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago. (NASA photo) New results from China’s Chang’e 5 lunar samples ...

Researchers made a tantalizing discovery after they MacGyver-ed old data from a radar instrument on a satellite gathered 14 years ago from the Moon. When they used the mission data in a fresh new way, they found proof of a Moon cave hiding in plain sight.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While black moons are invisible to us, new moons can be seen during a solar eclipse like this one in April 2024. (Mak Studio/Getty Images) An unusual lunar event that happens only once ...

Scientists have spotted a new moon orbiting Uranus that is so tiny it can be circumnavigated in just a few hours. NASA announced Tuesday that the still unnamed moon was captured by the Webb Telescope in February. The Uranus system has moons named for ...

Apollo 12's pinpoint landing, resilient teamwork, and decades of enduring data prove how one stormy launch reshaped the science of precision exploration. When Apollo 12 lifted off from Cape Kennedy on November 14, 1969, the skies were threatening rain.

You may have noticed the moon looked a little different last night — it was full, low, and in some places glowed with a bright-pink hue. It was June’s Strawberry Moon — so named not because of the reddish glow, but because its namesake fruit is ready ...