Mars had been SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s longstanding focus. A year ago, he wrote in a post on X: "The Moon is a distraction.”

Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building a city on the moon.

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed to 3.1 percent. It was the highest probability of a strike by an object of its size, roughly 200 feet wide, or larger ever recorded by NASA. But the chances quickly dropped to near zero, as experts had predicted.

It's a new lunar phase.

From dark-sky parks to remote deserts, these locations offer prime views of the March 3, 2026, blood moon.

Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar surface. “One of them is wrong,” an expert said.

Have you wondered why NASA is going back to the Moon again with the Artemis missions? Here's all the material and information NASA is targeting this time.

Time only moves microseconds faster on the moon, so why would it need its own timezone? Learn how the moon's timezone plays a vital role in astronaut safety.