The Moon is one of the most fascinating objects in the sky, and one of its most notable characteristics is the fact that it always shows the same face to Earth. This phenomenon, known as ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

"Athena continues to be in excellent health and is expected to send lunar orbit selfies over the next two days before a landing attempt on March 6." ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander died inside a small crater near the moon's south pole, photos by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show.

Planetary alignments have always been a fascinating subject, both for scientists and astrology enthusiasts alike. The idea ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander has made it to the moon. The Athena lander fired its engines for eight minutes and 12 seconds on Monday (March 3), slowing the spacecraft down and entering ...

LRO, which has been studying the moon from lunar orbit since 2009, has also captured photos of Blue Ghost. The Firefly lander remains healthy and is expected to continue operating until March 16 ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, managed by Texas company Firefly Aerospace, touched down Sunday morning on the moon's near side.

Even small stars that orbit big stars would be moons! Clearly we’re running into trouble trying to hang the word moon on these objects. There’s also the problem that the arguments for what ...