American astronauts who return to the moon's surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a ...

The 'Ring of Fire' solar eclipse, the first of 2026, was visible in some parts of the world as the moon moved across the path ...

A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven terrain. Researchers found that the South Pole-Aitken Basin formed from a ...

Plus NOAA's GOES-19 satellite spies the lunar disk crossing the face of our parent star.

The moon's heavily cratered surface serves as a testament to how Earth's closest celestial neighbor has become a figurative magnet for space rocks during its 4.5 billion-year history. One of the best ...