Previous observations have suffered from ambiguity between water and its molecular cousin hydroxyl, but the new detection used a method that yielded unambiguous findings.

Halloween 2020 falls on a Saturday with a rare blue moon, and leads into the end of Daylight Saving Time in many regions.

Some astronomers suspect the potential 'mini-moon' was built on Earth many years ago.

The initiative, targeting companies that plan to send robots to mine lunar resources, is part of NASA's goal of setting "norms of behavior" in space and allowing private mining on the moon in ways that could help sustain future astronaut missions.

'It's a new era,' said president Lisa Campbell on Space X, private partnerships and no rules.

A rare penumbral lunar eclipse will shine over Canada and the U.S. at the end of Independence Day and early the next morning.

June's 'Strawberry Moon' includes a penumbral lunar eclipse for viewers in some parts of the world.

The proposal suggests building a telescope on the far side of the moon to listen for radio signals that NASA can't hear on Earth.

Astronomers say the relatively tiny object has been circling the Earth for about three years — but it won‘t be around for much longer.

Western's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration won a bid to develop the panorama camera-style mount that will allow for 360-degree data collection.