Moon

The European Space Agency Wants to Build a Moon Village

Someday soon, the hot new European vacation spot could have a great view of the planet Earth

Aldrin was became the second human to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Astronauts Fill Out Customs Forms, Too

Read Buzz Aldrin's expense report and customs form from his Apollo 11 mission to the moon

Satellite images of the Moon moving around the Earth

Breathtaking Space GIF Gives Earth a New Perspective of the Moon

NASA's EPIC camera took the image a million miles from Earth

A Streak in the Sky: Photographer Captures an Incredible Time-lapse Image of the Moon

Janne Voutilainen's photo took nearly 40 minutes to shoot

An artist's interpretation of the Gaia spacecraft -- mistaken for a small moon this week

The Time a Space Observatory Was Mistaken for a Second Moon

For 13 hours, the space observatory Gaia was misidentified as a natural satellite orbiting Earth

The moon during a lunar eclipse

Japan Plans a Trip to the Moon by 2018

The lander will use information from Japan’s moon-orbiting satellite to stick the landing

When young planets collide.

The Moon Was Formed in a Smashup Between Earth and a Near Twin

But solving one puzzle of lunar origins has raised another linked to the abundances of tungsten in the primordial bodies

Could NASA Stop on the Moon on the Way to Mars?

NASA's chief of human exploration thinks we'll need a pit stop en route to the fiery planet

Saturday’s Lunar Eclipse Will Be The Shortest This Century

Will you spot this weekend's "blood moon"?

A moth visits a male cone on Ephedra foeminea and feeds on a pollination droplet.

"Wereplant" Releases Its Pollen By the Light of the Full Moon

An unassuming shrub from the Mediterranean is the first documented case of a plant timing its reproduction to the lunar cycle

Our familiar, and only true, Moon -- the only photos of the 'second moon' are of a distant, blurry object

Bet You Didn't Know About the Earth's 'Second Moon'

Even astronomers didn't realize it was following the Earth until 1997

A rover developed by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation and considered for use in the early 1970s, not a moon race competitor

Forget the Race to the Moon. These Rovers Will Race on the Moon.

It's going to be a pretty slow race, however

Ten years ago this week, the Huygens probe gave scientists a first look at the icy surface beneath the haze of Saturn's moon Titan.

Best Space Photos of the Week: From Solar Flares to Saturn's Moons

A spitting sun, a well-loved lake and a happy accident on Mars star in this week's best space images

One of many abstract images of the Moon collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

These Photos From a Lunar Orbiter Could Be Abstract Art

Our distant view of the Moon from Earth is nice, but these close-ups are amazing

This Company Is Crowdfunding a Mission to the Moon

Your reward: a spot in a digital time capsule buried beneath the lunar surface

The giant Herschel Crater gives Saturn’s moon Mimas an ominous look.

A Mysterious Force is Acting on Saturn’s “Death Star” Moon

Tiny, cratered Mimas is wobbling way more than it should be, hinting that it might contain either an oddly shaped core or a subsurface ocean

Fortunately the lava cooled before we got there.

The Man in the Moon Was Made By Radioactivity, Not Meteors

Differential cooling caused by radioactive material in the crust caused one of the Moon's most distinctive features

Members of the Apollo 15 crew training at Cinder Lake.

Can't Make It to the Moon? Head to Arizona Instead

In 1967, the United States Geological Survey turned an old volcano into a lunar training ground for astronauts

Saturn Is Making (And Destroying) Mini-Moons All The Time

Saturn's F ring is a little moon factory

Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. stands with the U.S. flag on the lunar surface during the Apollo 12 mission.

The Moon Smells Like Gunpowder

The smell of the Moon is not just the smell of space

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