Category: The moon

An expert discusses how the space race to the moon could lead to possible warfare, and how policies could avoid future conflict.

In Cerro Pachón, a full moon lights up the desert night sky and shows its many features.

Some of Earth's oldest rocks buried deep in Western Australia may hold new clues about the dramatic event that gave rise to our moon.

Research shows a full moon can modestly affect sleep, but its influence on mental health is much less certain.

Space agencies around the world are planning moon missions that will depend on water ice for resources, but much remains unknown about its availability of water ice on the lunar surface.

Fragments of CI chondrite meteorites, which are space rocks that are typically rich in water, have turned up in the sample collected from the moon's South Pole-Aitken basin by China's Chang'e 6 mission.

With the Argonaut lunar lander and the LUNA simulation facility in Germany, the European Space Agency is building the technology and training to have life on the moon.

Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's first-ever employee — just announced that it plans to build a robotic moon lander to help open the lunar frontier.

The isotopic ratio of sulfur-33 on the moon differs from that of Earth. Did the moon's sulfur instead come from the impactor that formed it?

From phases to phenomena, this moon-themed skywatching quiz will test your lunar knowledge.