As of 2025, only twelve people have ever set foot on the moon—all of them American astronauts from NASA’s Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972. It took six missions to make it happen, with ...

Quick facts about the moon. How far away it is: An average of 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) from our planet How big it is: 2,159 miles (3,475 km) across, or about one-fourth our planet's size ...

NASA is gearing up for an exciting chapter in lunar exploration by sending a trio of high-tech instruments to the Moon. Two ...

Long ago, the Moon had active volcanoes, but they have been silent for millions of years. Photo Credit: NASA The Moon’s radius is 1,080 miles (1,740 km)- less than one-third the size of Earth.

NASA is gearing up for a bold new era of lunar exploration with three advanced instruments set to investigate the Moon’s ...

A machine that helped with the calculations behind the first moon landing has been acquired by a Scottish museum. With the ...

NASA's CAPSTONE mini-spacecraft recently marked its 100th trip around the moon in near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). The agency has just granted CAPSTONE a mission extension after operating in ...

SpaceX has roughly $15 billion worth of NASA contracts, offering the agency its only U.S. ride for astronauts to space and a moon lander that will land crews on the moon later this decade.

That makes the moon’s surface a brutal environment for humans. Temperatures are extreme, ranging from 260 degrees Fahrenheit in daylight and minus 280 degrees after nightfall, according to NASA.