Robotic vehicles from Firefly Aerospace of Texas and Ispace of Japan will part ways early Wednesday after launching from the same SpaceX rocket. Both are aiming for the lunar surface.

"You can't necessarily use the ages recorded by rocks to tell when the moon formed," study lead author Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz, told Space.com.

Learn about the Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector and how NASA will utilize it to learn more about the Moon.

The vintage NASA photos include Earthrise, which was captured by the crew of Apollo 8 as they orbited the Moon.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1, part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, ...

Humanity’s fascination with the Moon tracks as far back as its interest in tracking time, the changing of the seasons, and navigating the seas. This obsession with its phases and placement in ...