collecting spectroscopic images of the Moon. This data recorded the infrared light reflected by the Moon, looking for colors on the spectrum consistent with water and hydroxyl. The researchers ...

"With only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of ...

The breakthrough comes from researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who set out to replicate the harsh lunar ...

NASA will send a ‘Lunar Flashlight’ to illuminate the shadowy craters and depressions on the Moon’s south pole. The space agency hopes to find water ice ... will cruise over the lunar ...

Astrophotographer Riste Spiroski has captured a striking view of the moon and Jupiter in the sky over Lake Ohrid, one of ...

The moon was long believed to be dry, but over the last few decades several missions have shown there is water both on the surface and trapped inside minerals. Mahesh Anand, a professor of ...

But they cautioned more samples are needed for a clearer picture. A better understanding of the abundance of water in the ... samples gathered over past decades from the moon’s near side.

For years, scientists have been puzzled over how water can exist on the moon, which is a place with no atmosphere, no air, and bone-dry soil. With scorching sunlight during the day and freezing ...

The craters on the Moon's South ... bringing in water particles. Either way, scientists assume that the uppermost surface of the Moon has been continuously getting reworked over the past thousand ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Future moon ... changed over time showed a drop in the light signal at the same spot in the infrared region — near three microns — where water ...