A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven ...

In 1848, James Marshall was building a lumber mill in northern California for his employer, John Sutter. One January morning, Marshall spotted sparkling pebbles within the mill's outflow; Sutter and ...

NASA has tapped Blue Origin for a potential $190 million Commercial Lunar Payload Service task order to deliver the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover to the Moon’s south pole in late ...

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract to deliver a pair of rovers and three scientific instruments to the moon's south pole. Targeted for landing in 2029, the mission will be ...

An artist’s conception shows NASA’s VIPER rover and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK1 lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA has selected Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture to help ...

On Friday, Blue Origin won a major NASA contract to deliver a lunar rover to the moon, a strong vote of confidence in both the Blue Moon lander and the future of human exploration. The contract also ...

Remote, freezing, and wrapped in mystery, Antarctica was the last continent to be explored and remains one of the most difficult environments on Earth to access. Its landscape of endless white, broken ...