The Moon is usually a picture of stillness, its grey face changing only with the phases of light. Yet for a fraction of a second, astronomers watched that calm surface erupt in a sharp, brilliant ...

The far side of the Moon has long been a blank space in humanity’s geological record, but China has just filled in a crucial ...

Firefly plans to launch its lander toward the moon’s South Pole by the end of 2026. Assuming it arrives in one piece, the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. ESA astronauts Matthias Maurer and Aidan Cowley work in a simulated moon landscape, with stage ...

Troublesome lunar dust could soon be transformed into solar cells to help power moon bases and humanity's push to explore further out into space. This is the promise of an international team of ...

The Moon’s surface is continuously bombarded by the solar wind – a stream of electrically charged particles ejected by the Sun. These high-energy ions can knock atoms out of the Moon’s uppermost layer ...

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen talks to Bob McDonald about the final preparations for his 10-day mission around the moon, where ...

Moon dust may not be as harmful to humans as had been thought, with a new experiment showing that the typical air pollution on a busy street is more toxic than inhaling lunar dust. "The results ...

For Artemis IV, Lunar Outpost will partner with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of ...