STORY: NASA will send four astronauts on a ten-day voyage around the moon in 2026 - the latest step in a mission to land ...

NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return humans to the moon.

Before they head to the moon in 2026, the four Artemis 2 astronauts have to practice observing Earth's nearest neighbor.

On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it ...

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

The company’s Starship rocket, which has suffered a series of recent test explosions, is still years away from being ready ...

NASA has revived a robotic lunar rover mission by selecting Blue Origin to deliver it to the moon’s south pole in 2027.

Since the beginning of the 1960s, mankind took a giant leap by aiming for the Moon and beyond in pursuit of colonisation. The idea of a “Space Race” ...

VIPER was originally supposed to land on the moon in late 2023 aboard Griffin, a lander built by Pittsburgh-based company ...

The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it to its successful conclusion the following year.

NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy pushed back against recent critics who have suggested China will beat the US back to the moon, saying “I‘ll be damned” if that is the ultimate outcome of the ...

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