For more than half a century, tiny tubes of gray lunar dirt scooped up by Apollo astronauts have been sitting in NASA vaults. They’ve been prodded, sliced and analyzed to reveal the Moon’s geological past.

Last night's near-total lunar eclipse did not disappoint. In the second and final lunar eclipse of the year, our natural satellite transformed into a stunning red-orange "blood moon" as almost all of it fell under Earth's shadow.

Scientists have uncovered a double diffusion process explaining Dead Sea salt accumulation. Warm, salty upper waters interact with cooler, less salty layers below. This creates salt fingers which carry salt downwards to the lakebed.

The system is outlined in a recent study, and it’s a lot more complex than one would think. Gateway and other spacecraft orbiting the moon are expected to use the near-rectilinear halo orbit, which takes spacecraft around both poles of the moon.

As of Friday, Aug. 28, NASA's Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon is in Full Moon phase, with 100% of its surface visible.

NASA scientists found that microbes brought by astronauts could survive in cold, shadowed niches around the Moon’s South Pole, potentially complicating future searches for pristine lunar chemistry. Some refuges may be no larger than a footprint,

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Six days after a Falcon 9 upper stage slammed into the lunar surface, NASA’s orbiting camera caught the aftermath.

Snapped on August 23, 1966, by the uncrewed Lunar Orbiter 1, the photo’s legacy lives on in the breathtaking images of Earth taken by the Artemis II crew