A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, researchers say. Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could potentially ...

Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon ...

However, DARPA wants the LASSO spacecraft to orbit the moon as low as 6.2 miles (10 km). "The orbiting spacecraft needs to ...

In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...

"With only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Lunar samples show evidence that solar wind could be behind the water molecules on the moon's surface, according to NASA. The ...

NASA’s own efforts to search for water at the moon have been stymied by technical and fiscal problems. NASA launched the Lunar Trailblazer smallsat Feb. 26, which was to go around the moon to ...

who flew on a Nasa mission in 1998 when aged 77. Pettit used his time in space to conduct research about in-orbit metal 3D printing capabilities, advancing water sanitation technologies ...

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

NASA wants to understand if this process can be used for water harvesting on the Moon. Future missions may explore this more, and it could help us survive and thrive in space. Spacecraft show moon ...

NASA achieved a historic achievement by successfully receiving GPS signals from the Moon and tracking them, which represents a vital advancement in space navigation. The Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment ...