Low, winding ridges run across the Moon’s dark plains like faint seams in cooled wax. They are easy to miss in a wide photo. Up close, they look like the surface has been gently pushed from below. A ...

For a long time, people imagined the moon as a quiet, frozen world where nothing much happens anymore. But new research shows ...

Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

The Moon, long treated as a geologically inert relic, is still contracting and cracking. A growing body of peer-reviewed research now confirms that tectonic faulting on the lunar surface has occurred ...

NASA’s first crewed moon mission in decades is delayed as its engineers grapple with an all-too-familiar rocket problem: hydrogen leaks. Fixing the issue that’s plagued the agency since the Shuttle ...

A century-old vision of space-based solar power is being revived by tech billionaires, raising profound questions about the future structure of electricity markets and AI-driven energy demand.

California-based aerospace company Vast partnered with NASA to send four private astronauts to the International Space Station for up to two weeks.

New observations of the Moon have now found small mare ridges (SMRs), faults located in the lunar maria, the dark basalt plains of the Moon. These are what we normally call seas, such as the Sea of ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting and reshaping itself. These features are among ...

"It's really difficult to overstate how bad we are at finding intermediate mass black holes." ...

Exploring claims on the internet deepens instruction by helping students understand how knowledge is created and when it can ...

Norman C. Francis was one of the most influential New Orleanians of the past century. These five moments and memories help show his impact.