Astronauts on the Moon (like Harrison H. Schmitt, pictured collecting lunar samples in 1972) could one day live in lunar habitats made of “mooncrete.” Credit: NASA/JSC, Public Domain NASA’s Artemis ...

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Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing site. Their analysis points to a still-active fault that has been generating ...

Scientists are to send a spacecraft to hunt for aliens potentially hiding in our solar system. The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, as it has all the ...

CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly, can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Ill ...

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Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...

Apollo 17 brought home more than dust and stones. A new study reports that some lunar rocks carry an unusual sulfur signature that does not match Earth’s. That mismatch lives in tiny mineral grains ...

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The human desire to explore the moon continues to shape our history, and soon, it will take a giant leap forward with NASA's Artemis II mission, which has a launch window that opens in February 2026.

A team of scientists from Brown University has uncovered new sulfur isotopes unlike any found on Earth. The researchers analyzed lunar samples that had remained unopened since they were collected by ...