On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon ...

Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut who died last weekend, was remembered today as a space pioneer, a reluctant hero and a man who bore with dignity the burden of being a national icon. A private ...

In the years of the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union tussled to prove their superiority by rushing to become the first nation to put a man on the moon. While America might have claimed that ...

Key goals of the Artemis program include: Landing the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon. Building a space station orbiting the Moon to support exploration. Establishing a base camp ...

Canada's first lunar rover will search for water at the Moon's south pole as part of an international effort to establish a ...

China is going full throttle in its quest to land astronauts on the moon by 2030. That was clearly evident in an Aug. 15 ...

Last week was the 56th anniversary of the first Moon landing (if you believe in that sort of thing). The governments of the U.S., Russia, China, India, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, ...