For the first time, NASA has confirmed the water molecule, H2O, in sunlit areas of the Moon, indicating that water is widely distributed across the lunar surface.

This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places.

This week’s full Moon will deliver more than just Halloween ambience.

NASA has identified the agency’s science priorities for the Artemis III mission.

New designs could help future explorers to answer nature’s call on missions to the Moon.

NASA will announce a new discovery about the Moon at a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 26.

NASA is seeking ideas from the public for powering exploration on the Moon.

The ancient Moon’s magnetic field may have helped our planet to become habitable.

We want to know: what would you pack for a trip to the Moon?

The public is invited to virtually attend NASA’s International Observe the Moon Night event on Saturday, September 26.

The contest, open to U.S. students in grades K-12, challenges participants to imagine leading a one-week expedition to the Moon’s South Pole.

Learn how you can host an International Observe the Moon Night event in this NASA Night Sky Network webinar recording.

While our Moon is airless, research indicates the presence of a form of rust that normally requires oxygen and water.

Chris Culbert and Camille Alleyne explain how NASA will use commercially built and operated landers from American companies to send payloads to the surface of the Moon.

Dozens of times over the last decade, NASA scientists and collaborators have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel orbiting the Moon. Today they announced that they have received a return signal for the first time.

Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have detected ozone in Earth's atmosphere.

A microwave oven–sized CubeSat will serve as the first spacecraft to test a unique, elliptical lunar orbit, paving the way for humanity's future on and around the Moon.

Beginning on the near side of the Moon, with the Apollo sites marked, the view quickly moves to the South Pole and zooms in to show the changing illumination conditions there for an entire year.

Preparing to explore the surface of the Moon goes well beyond designing and building safe spacecraft and spacesuits. NASA also has to ensure the surface vehicles and suits have the mobility required to do science, and that astronauts have the tools they need to identify and scoop up rock and soil samples.

What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into an unexpected finding that could help scientists better understand the Moon’s formation.

Which way the wind blows in space has new importance for astronaut safety at the Moon.

NASA's Lunar Flashlight aims to detect ice at the bottom of craters on the Moon that have never seen sunlight.

NASA has awarded industry partner Astrobotic of Pittsburgh a contract to deliver NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon’s South Pole.

What is a supermoon? And other frequently asked supermoon questions.

The next full Moon will be on Tuesday night, April 7. It's also a "supermoon," the largest of the full Moons this year.

With the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and next man on the Moon

NASA scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth on Apollo 17 for scientific study.

The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon’s south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no one is sure exactly when or how that ice got there. A new study suggests that while a majority of those deposits are likely billions of years old, some may be more recent.

50 years ago, Apollo 12 launched to the Moon!

During a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Aug. 22, astronaut Nick Hague debuted the Artemis program identity in space.

Artemis, named after the twin sister of Apollo who is also the Goddess of the Moon and the hunt, encompasses all of our efforts to return humans to the Moon – which will prepare us and propel us on to Mars.

To safely navigate the heliosphere, NASA scientists and missions have been mapping the region for decades. Recent results are helping us engineer a safe path for future space explorers abroad.

The movie First Man tells the story of Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 moon landing, one of NASA’s most notable figures and one of the agency’s crowning achievements, is the foundation of NASA’s legacy of achievements in exploration and discovery.

To train future explorers to support NASA’s mission to return to the Moon’s surface, scientists use similar environments found on the Earth.

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.

In the fall of 2011, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission released its original Tour of the Moon, a five-minute animation that takes the viewer on a virtual tour of our nearest neighbor in space. Six years later, the tour has been recreated in eye-popping 4K resolution.

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.

During a lunar eclipse, Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon, blocking the sunlight falling on the Moon.

NASA's Exploration Campaign is a national and agency effort focused on three core domains: low Earth orbit; lunar orbit and surface; and Mars and other deep space objectives.

The crew of the International Space Station snapped this image of the full Moon on April 30, 2018, as the station orbited off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

NASA is focused on an ambitious plan to advance the nation’s space program by increasing science activities near and on the Moon and ultimately returning humans to the surface.

A shock of color on the Moon! The Lassell Massif (a so-called "red spot") in Mare Nubium appears orange in the center of this color composite image from the Wide Angle Camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

A new analysis of data finds evidence that the Moon’s water is widely distributed across the surface, though it’s not necessarily easily accessible.

This lunar farside rayed crater is named after planetary scientist Elisabetta “Betty” Pierazzo (1963-2011).

Determining how much water ice is present at the lunar poles is an important goal, because water could provide a key resource for future lunar explorers, serving as drinking water or rocket fuel.