Alan Shepard’s playful experiment captured something equally important about exploration: the unmistakably human urge to ...

Axiom Space has raised $350 million to advance development of a commercial space station and new spacesuits for NASA.

Data from a NASA lunar orbiter has helped researchers deduce two potential locations for a defunct Soviet spacecraft called ...

The first manned mission of the Artemis program won’t land on the moon, but it aims to take four astronauts farther from the Earth than anyone has gone before.

Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them ...

More than 50 years after Apollo 17, NASA’s Artemis II will send four astronauts on a 10-day loop around the Moon to test the agency’s deep-space hardware.

Two rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...

With the Cold War fueling the space race, NASA faced its greatest test—landing humans on the Moon. The Apollo Program overcame setbacks, perfected lunar orbit, and built the Lunar Module, leading to ...

(NASA) – On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard ...

Three developments stand out that will make the return to the moon effort different from the first time we visited Earth’s ...

That acknowledged, this launch, costing billions of dollars, raises many more questions than it answers. Primarily, why is ...