The Apollo mission recovered a fragment known as sample 76535, which showed virtually no signs of violent shocks from deep rock impact.

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago.

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would ...

It has been hanging in the sky for billions of years, but how did it come to be? The other night, while I was smoking on the balcony, I looked up at the big, round moon and suddenly started pondering ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.

For decades, scientists have puzzled over a curious phenomenon: the Moon’s surface rocks show strong signs of magnetism, despite the fact that the Moon doesn’t have a global magnetic field today. Now, ...