In a historic achievement for lunar exploration, China’s Chang’e-6 mission successfully returned the first-ever samples from the moon’s far side in 2024. These samples, collected from the South ...

Several countries will get to see the upcoming lunar eclipse on Sept. 7–8, when Earth positions itself between the moon and the sun. This alignment causes Earth’s shadow to fall on the moon’s surface, ...

When spacecraft land on the moon, their engines unleash huge clouds of dust and debris that can damage expensive equipment and threaten future lunar bases. As space agencies plan to establish a ...