If astronauts plan to spend more than a few days on the moon, they'll need to find some local resources. One of the most important of those resources is water. Scientists are pretty sure there is ...

Clark is lead author of the article "The Global Distribution of Water and Hydroxyl on the Moon as Seen by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)" that is published in the Planetary Science Journal. Clark ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ...

And I'll occasionally come across people who are like, oh, we know there's water on the moon at the poles, and here's the way that I'm going to mine it. And I'm like, well, that's interesting.

Japan-based company Ispace will attempt to safely land its Resilience spacecraft on the moon this week after the lunar lander ...

But how does all this relate to the amount of water that may or may not be present on the moon? According to Prasad, there are two factors that created the large temperature in those measurements ...

Despite all appearances, the moon is a world with water. Strewn throughout the soil, water molecules are scattered all around the moon’s surface. Where they originated has long stumped scientists, but ...