Humans have not been on the Moon since 1972, but what brought the age of lunar exploration to an end? After NASA successfully landed on the Moon in 1969, it faced significant government funding cuts.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) NASA is planning to ...

The Moon, Earth's closest celestial neighbour, is shrinking at a faster rate than previously thought. According to scientists at the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and Planetary ...

As the historic lunar flyby comes to a close, space companies and nations around the world are also shooting for the moon. Upcoming landings aim to change the landscape of space exploration From the ...

Article originally published: Feb. 2, 2026. Soon, four U.S. astronauts are slated to begin their history-making journey to the moon and back. The astronauts, the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission, ...

We know more about many aspects of the Moon than we know about any world beyond our own, and yet we have barely begun to solve its countless mysteries. In the decades since the last Apollo landing on ...

A tiny robot developed by Japan's space agency operated autonomously on the moon for more than 100 minutes and sent a series of images back to Earth. Exploring the moon’s surface lays crucial ...

We've known for nearly two decades that some form of water exists on the moon. What we still don't know is exactly how much accessible water ice lies inside permanently shadowed craters, how deeply it ...

Two recent studies suggest that fiber-optic cables laid directly on the moon's surface could potentially detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future human and ...