Man is preparing to return to the Moon with many new features compared to the last moon landing by Eugene Cernan, commander of the Apollo 17 mission, in 1972. In 2026, Artemis II will launch the Orion spacecraft, while the

SOS Moon. Missions to explore Earth's only natural satellite are important and necessary, but they also have a downside that many people are unaware of. This is the enormous amount of waste produced by space missions that is generated by

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 7, to discuss the agency's science and technology flying aboard Intuitive Machines' second flight to the Moon. The mission is part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has announced new delays to the Artemis program for the first manned mission to the Moon since 1972, postponing the next two planned missions, including the planned lunar landing. Nelson said at a press conference that

NASA continues to advance its campaign to explore more of the Moon than ever before, awarding Firefly Aerospace $179 million to deliver six experiments to the lunar surface. This fourth task order for Firefly will target landing in the Gruithuisen Domes on

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON Reuters) - The NASA astronauts who became the first people to land on the moon's surface in the 1960s and 1970s also discovered a previously unknown lunar characteristic - it has an atmosphere, though quite tenuous. Soil

By Liz Lee, Joey Roulette and Joe Brock BEIJING (Reuters) - China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday, a landmark mission aiming to retrieve the world's first rock and soil samples from the dark

By Albee Zhang and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - China will send a robotic spacecraft in coming days on a round trip to the moon's far side in the first of three technically demanding missions that will pave the way for

Japanese astronaut: The United States is the only country to have taken its astronauts to the Moon. So far, twelve men have walked on lunar soil, but there will be big news in the coming years. The first will bear