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NASA's Artemis 1 confirms the launching of its first moon mission after facing cancelations, Congressional hearings, COVID-19, and other technical delays. NASA's decades-long push is to have a launch slated in late August or early September at its Kennedy Space...

John Paraskevopoulos may not be a household name, but the Greek astrophysicist who had a crater on the moon named after him and discovered a number of comets, made a significant contribution to our understanding of the universe in...

NASA announced on Tuesday it has lost radio contact with the moon-bound CAPSTONE spacecraft launched last week to test an unusual lunar orbit. According to NASA, the loss of communications occurred on July 4, 2022 while CAPSTONE was in contact...

NASA announced last week that there is a new “double crater” on the moon, but no country is claiming responsibility for the impact. The double crater is the combination of two craters, both roughly 19.5 yards and 17.5 yards in...

China's Chang'e 5 lunar landing and sampling mission found water on the moon both through on-site analysis and in materials delivered to Earth. The daring Chang'e 5 mission touched down on the moon in December 2020, drilling down for and...

Food has been grown in soil collected from the Moon for the first time, paving the way for human colonization of the solar system. Scientists from the University of Florida have cultivated cress in dirt, or regolith, that had been...

Ancient Greek scientists and mathematicians in ancient Greece made some of the most significant astronomical discoveries centuries ago.

A new study exploring the icy shell of Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, finds the frigid satellite shares striking similarities with Greenland. Evidence of the shallow pools—not far beneath the frozen surface of Europa—emerged when scientists noticed that giant...

A discarded part of a rocket crashed into the Moon's far side just after noon, scientists say. They were expecting the impact to occur at 12:25 GMT on Friday. The rocket segment, which weighs three tons, had been tracked for...

Russia and China are joining forces to build a research base on the Moon, called the International Lunar Research Station, by the year 2035. The research station will rival NASA's Lunar Gateway, a small space station that will orbit the...