The future of lunar exploration never looked more colorful, or so square. "The Next Giant Leap," a pair of moon-themed quilts, debuted at the Kennedy Center's Earth to Space festival in Washington.

Firefly Aerospace has successfully landed its Blue Ghost lander on the Moon’s surface, marking a major milestone for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Carrying 10 ...

Moon exploration is undergoing a potentially transformative moment. Over the course of six weeks, three different lunar landers began a rocket-fueled space journey to learn more about Earth’s ...

The ongoing surge of interest in lunar exploration represents a new global wave of energy and skill — and scientists and space aficionados the world over will be its beneficiaries.

VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, was planned by NASA to be delivered by an Astrobotic Griffin lander to the moon’s south pole. It would trundle across the lunar surface ...

A spacecraft built in Colorado will travel to the moon, searching for one of the most critical resources for future space exploration: water. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a small but powerful ...

Soil samples analyzed from the Chang’E-5 mission provide evidence of water on the lunar surface, which the research team suggests could allow human explorers to harness the Moon’s natural ...