As of Sunday, Dec. 21, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent (if you're in the U.S). According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, ...

A Japanese spacecraft carrying the SLIM moon lander snaps a photo of Earth and the moon in September. Credit: JAXA / SLIM The race to land on the moon will bleed into 2024 as more national space ...

It has been more than 50 years since the last people visited the moon. In the 1960s and 1970s, 24 astronauts flew around the moon, with 12 of them walking on the moon itself. Since then, there have ...

Those who control the moon gain a lot of options when it comes to the future. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. America is going ...

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

An uncrewed private spacecraft has reached the moon's orbit, one day ahead of its attempt to land at the lunar south pole. Intuitive Machines' robotic spacecraft, which launched from Cape Canaveral, ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Decades after ...

The failure of recent missions highlights the challenges of relying on private entities to spearhead the US’s lunar ambitions. The failure of recent missions highlights the challenges of relying on ...

The Apollo 11 moon landing is one of the most iconic moments in human history. Commander Neil Armstrong's words, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," are among the most ...

Humanity's first look at Earth from the moon didn't come until Aug. 23, 1966, when this grainy, black-and-white image showed our planet as a crescent above the lunar horizon, appearing to rise as the ...