This landscape was so convincingly alien that Apollo astronauts spent weeks here preparing for moon missions. Can you guess where on Earth it is?

Before humans send probes to space to mine for precious metals on asteroids, they could find vast quantities of minerals like platinum on the Moon’s craters, a new study suggests. Minerals like ...

A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon’s surface today. The Moon’s familiar surface tells a story of both ancient violence and ...

When Apollo 11 astronauts returned to Earth after accomplishing history’s first-ever crewed moon landing, they brought back nearly 50 pounds of moon dust and rocks. Researchers who initially analyzed ...

U.S. astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a permanent ...

The University of Texas at Arlington is teaming up with NASA to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night this Saturday. At the free event, held in the UTA Observatory from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m., ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minerals like platinum-group metals, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium, could be scattered across the nearly 6,500 ...