The moon, our closest celestial neighbor, has long been a source of fascination and mystery. Despite numerous missions and studies, there are still aspects of the moon that baffle scientists. Here are ...

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary ...

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

The Moon is not, in fact, a giant cosmic wheel of Gouda. In a landmark paper published in Nature, researchers from the French National Center of Scientific Research delivered a hard truth: the Moon is ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The photos show an eclipse and a distant Earth disappearing behind the moon, a disorienting and surreal perspective. Here's what to know.