Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of the Apollo 17 moon rock troctolite 76535. A fresh analysis of moon rocks brought home during the Apollo missions has, ...

Scientists have discovered how water and hydrogen are formed and retained on the Moon’s surface, taking humans a step closer to establishing permanent lunar bases. Finding ways to make and utilise ...

Expanding human civilization to the moon has been an ongoing theme in science fiction for decades, but as with all forms of space travel, it's not exactly a simple task. Logistics alone are a ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is just beginning its mission to explore the Moon. One of its instruments has already indicated that hydrogen (a component of water) is present at the south pole ...

Space travel is difficult and expensive it would cost thousands of dollars to launch a bottle of water to the moon. The recent discovery of hydrogen-bearing molecules, possibly including water, on the ...

Seattle-based Interlune will build and test a payload that advances its plan to bring back lunar helium-3 for use in quantum computers.

Astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. These discoveries add to ...

Could Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, hold the ingredients for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers from Harvard ...

Scientists have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, offering clues about the origins of the space rock and other celestial objects in the ...