The craters bear the names of astronomers who revolutionized our understanding of the night sky.

The Waning Gibbous Moon on February 6, 2026, offers views of a host of recognizable lunar features.

It's day 19 of the lunar cycle.

For the first time in more than half a century, NASA will soon be sending an intrepid crew of astronauts toward the Moon with ...

NASA scientists have proposed something extraordinary: building the largest telescope ever made on the far side of the Moon.

For the Moon itself, the story is different. The Moon has far less water than Earth, but for such a dry world it’s important. Most of it lies frozen in dark polar craters, and these icy spots could ...

Texas Tech University announced it was awarded $5.4 million to fund a third moon mission for Texas Tech geophysicist Seiichi ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

A full moon is "as close as we come to seeing the Sun’s illumination of the entire day side of the Moon,” NASA says.