NASA’s learned a lot about the Moon since Apollo. But a perfect landing still requires incredible planning and scientific ...

The moon's nearside (that is, the side facing Earth) is dark-colored and dominated by ancient lava flows, whereas the farside ...

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the moon has once again become a ...

University of South Australia based startup Paladin Space has announced that it has demonstrated the world’s first space ...

Micromoons occur when a full moon coincides with when it's farthest from Earth in its orbit. As a result, the micromoon will appear about 14% smaller and 30% dimmer than usual. Even so ...

The Wolf Amendment, a law that prevents bilateral cooperation in space research between the U.S. and China, is preventing U.S. government-funded analysis of the Chang'e 5 moon samples. A glass bead ...

This is the world’s first daytime satellite laser ranging in the Earth-moon space, marking a new technological breakthrough for China in the field of precise deep-space orbit measurement. The ...

Micromoons occur when a full moon coincides with the point in its orbit when it's farthest from Earth, known as apogee.

As the Moon orbits around the Earth, it follows an elliptical path. It's average distance is considered to be 384,400 kilometres (or one "lunar distance"), but for about half of each orbit the Moon is ...