A private space exploration company based in Japan, ispace, wants to see people living on the moon by 2040. They have plans ...

After a five month journey to the moon, Ispace’s Resilience lander is on track to touchdown on the lunar surface this ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...