Death Valley gets all the headlines. Lowest point in North America, hottest place on Earth, that whole dramatic mythos of a landscape so hostile it earned its name from gold rush pioneers who barely ...

As NASA’s moon-landing plans with SpaceX hang in the balance, other bold ideas are quietly starting to take shape.

November's Sky Above episode features a supermoon, meteor shower, and interstellar comet, with experts discussing these ...

On Wednesday, the space companies owned by two of the richest people on Earth — Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — submitted ideas to the space agency for a faster program to land ...

A new race to the moon is underway; not merely to erect flags, but to prospect for and extract water and helium-3, establish nuclear power plants and capitalize on the economic and strategic ...

A growing number of Americans think the 1969 Moon landing was faked. The latest high-profile celebrity to tout this conspiracy theory is reality star Kim Kardashian. The billionaire has said she got t ...

But much is unknown about the availability of water ice on the moon, or even what data is missing that could help fine-tune ...

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...

Deep inside a Swiss mountain, a group of students spent some of the summer simulating what life might be like inside a lunar ...

SpaceX’s delays forced NASA to reopen its moon lander contract. Rivals are circling, Artemis is wobbling, and China’s steady ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious relic from an area of the moon that has never been explored by humans until now.