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New high-res observations show little signs of ice in Shackleton crater.

A team of researchers at India’s Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) claims it has found evidence of relatively recent volcanic activity on the Moon, using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Chadrayaan-1 spacecraft.

Google has teamed up with the X Prize Foundation to offer a $20 million prize to the first private organization to land a spacecraft on the moon, move it 500 meters and send video back to Earth as proof.

We may only have one capital-M Moon, which affects our tides and causes our hearts to swell with love on summer nights, but we have a lot of rocks orbiting us.

Recent stretch marks have been found on the moon, a surprising find given previous evidence that the moon is shrinking.

A group of parapsychology sleuths claim their "remote viewing" of the Apollo 16 landing site shows that NASA is hiding evidence of alien visits to the moon.

Astronomy | BBC | When will we live on the Moon?It's a fair question. Newt Gingrich's assininery notwithstanding, it's worth considering carefully.

Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Lunar samples show the Moon has an identical titanium composition to Earth, throwing doubt on a hypothesis that it was created when an object the size of Mars collided with Earth.