Earth's Moon

NASA has announced a call for Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads that will fly to the Moon on commercial lunar landers as early as next year or 2020.

The next full Moon will be on Wednesday mid-day, October 24, 2018.

On Saturday, October 20, NASA will host the ninth annual International Observe the Moon Night.

Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night with your local astronomy club.

Quite a few candles have been lit since NASA was born on Oct. 1, 1958. Here’s a quick look back at some highlights from six decades of exploration—and a glimpse of what’s ahead.

NASA recently submitted to Congress a plan to revitalize and add direction to NASA’s enduring purpose.

Tools that can quickly reveal a terrain’s chemistry and form will help astronauts explore new worlds.

In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s surface.

To most of us, dust is an annoyance. But these tiny particles that float about and settle on surfaces play an important role across the solar system.

“Alan Bean once said ‘I have the nicest life in the world.’ It’s a comforting sentiment to recall as we mourn his passing."

As NASA shifts human exploration back to the Moon, U.S. commercial partnerships will be a key to expediting missions and building a sustainable presence on the lunar surface.

NASA is returning to the Moon with commercial and international partners as part of an overall agency Exploration Campaign in support of Space Policy Directive 1.

In December 2017, President Donald J. Trump gave NASA a new direction, telling the agency to work with international and commercial partners to refocus exploration efforts on the moon, with an eye to eventually going on to Mars and even beyond.

Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

The Moon, Mars and Saturn form a pretty triangle in early April, Lyrid meteors are visible, and more.

Fifty years ago, with President Kennedy’s Moon landing deadline looming, the powerful Saturn V had to perform. And perform it did—hurling 24 humans to the Moon.

Whether you're doing it for the nerd cred or the pie, this week on #10Things, we've got all the ways you can celebrate #PiDay with NASA.

Inspiring views of our solar system and beyond.

The Saturn V was a rocket NASA built to send people to the Moon. (The V in the name is the Roman numeral five.)

As part of an engineering test, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million km)

This month, in honor of Valentine's Day, we look at celestial star pairs and constellation couples.

Ten things to know about the January 2018 total lunar eclipse, including where to see it, why it turns the Moon into a deep red color, and more.

The Moon became a key focus point for NASA in 2017, whether it was blocking out the Sun during one of the most-viewed events in U.S. history, or reinvigorating the agency’s human space exploration plans.

Even the most ambitious plans start with a drawing. Visualizing a distant destination or an ambitious dream is the first step to getting there.

This week, we present 10 of our solar system's most marvelous moons.