Videos of astronauts on the Moon show them often bouncing across the lunar surface, helped by the fact that the gravity of our satellite is just one-sixth of Earth’s surface gravity. That experience ...

It is true that crewed missions to the moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous. And we now have a long history going back decades of reliable, dependable, capable robotic exploration, including ...

That’s exactly what a study published today in Science Advances sought to do. The researchers exposed mice aboard the ISS to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to the ...

When the Moon first formed, it was a sea of molten lava. The immense gravity of Earth stretched this molten sea, raising tides on both the near and far sides. But the Moon was spinning, and that ...

A look at how local resource use, material innovation, and autonomous construction are enabling practical habitat development ...