Earth's Moon

The Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon, the Green Corn Moon, the Raksha Bandhan full Moon, the Nikini Poya, and the Ghost Festival Moon.

CubeSats can be part of a historic mission—Artemis 2—when NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will send astronauts on their first flight aboard the Orion spacecraft.

Earth’s Moon and Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, may contain significantly more water ice than previously thought.

NASA has selected 13 U.S. companies for 19 partnerships to mature industry-developed space technologies and help maintain American leadership in space.

NASA has announced the latest opportunity for industry to participate in its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS).

Since the project began, NASA has selected nine companies that are eligible to bid on specific task orders based on NASA priorities.

One of the experiments Apollo astronauts left on the Moon continues to return fresh data to this day. The orbit, rotation and orientation of the Moon are accurately determined by lunar laser ranging.

On July 24, 1969, the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, the prime recovery ship for Apollo 11, was speeding for the new splashdown target area.

NASA is seeking comments from American companies interested in providing an integrated human landing system to put the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024.

Fifty years ago, the astronauts of Apollo 11 made their way home after their historic mission.

Water is slowly escaping the topmost, super thin layer of the Moon’s surface.

Chris Kraft, the flight director who created the concept of NASA's Mission Control, died Monday, July 22. He was 95.

Recounting the events of July 20, 1969.

NASA is unveiling the new Artemis program identity.

NASA is offering new opportunities for America to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission and look to the future of exploration on the Moon and Mars.

Here are a few things we’ll learn by spending time on the Moon’s surface.

An estimated one million people gathered on the beaches of central Florida to witness first-hand the launch of Apollo 11.

NASA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission with a live, two-hour television broadcast Friday, July 19.

The many challenges NASA overcame forced the agency and its partners to devise new inventions and techniques that spread into public life, many of which are taken for granted today.

The next full Moon will be on Tuesday afternoon, July 16, 2019, at 5:38 PM EDT. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Monday night through Thursday morning.

The "NASA Explorers: Apollo" audio series is a four-episode podcast that sheds light on lesser-known stories of lunar exploration from the Apollo program to now.

This is JoAnn Morgan, the instrumentation controller for Apollo 11.

NASA has selected 12 new science and technology payloads that will help us study the Moon and explore more of its surface as part of the agency’s Artemis lunar program.

NASA has selected eight new research teams to collaborate on research into the intersection of space science and human space exploration as part of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).

As NASA marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, here are five things to know about the Moon that you can share with others.