Earth and the moon both orbit an invisible point just below the planet's surface. All planetary systems have this point, called a barycenter, where their mass is perfectly balanced.

The moon orbits Earth — right? The answer is actually a little more complicated than that. The moon is circling a point about 3,000 miles from our planet's center, just below its surface. Earth ...

NASA plans to build a moon-orbiting space station in the future, and just released a comprehensive video of its vision.

The Lunar Gateway will be a space station in a lunar orbit primarily for getting astronauts and cargo to the surface of the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program. The space agency is using ...

After a journey of nearly five months, taking it far beyond the Moon and back, the little CAPSTONE spacecraft has successfully entered into lunar orbit. "We received confirmation that CAPSTONE ...

On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...

A six-legged moon lander will attempt to land on the moon this week for the first time in over 50 years. This will be the first-ever private spacecraft to do so, if successful.