The Artemis program plans to return Americans to the moon’s surface for the first time since the Apollo era ended in 1972.

In his 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck wrote of loss, “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than ...

The question is simple: why haven’t humans returned to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972? The main reason is money. After the first Moon landing in July 1969 with Apollo 11, there were only six more ...

A collaborative research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Unmanned Exploration Laboratory (UEL) has developed an innovative wheel that can effectively ...

Update March 13, 2026: NASA announced that it seeks to launch Artemis II by as early as April 1, 2026. Soon, four U.S. astronauts are slated to begin their history-making journey to the moon and back.

NASA will award the University of Colorado Boulder $24.8 million to build two space instruments that the agency has selected to fly on the Artemis IV mission to the south pole of the moon in 2028. The ...

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As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

Lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts more than half a century ago are providing a fresh take on the moon's mysterious magnetic field, scientists reported Wednesday.Samples to be retrieved by ...

Invitation -- Selecting binoculars -- Your observatory -- How find to the moon -- Man in the moon and other features -- How the moon behaves -- Selenography -- Month with the moon -- One-day moon -- ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A Statement of Task." National Research Council. 2007. The Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: ...