Processes of radiometric dating were then undertaken, which proved that the beads were over 120 million years old, as ...

Landing 12 people on the moon remains one of NASA's greatest achievements, if not the greatest. Astronauts on the Apollo ...

An engineer has been recognised with a blue plaque for his role in helping to put mankind on the Moon. Tom Bacon, a Cambridge ...

Everyone knows the name of the first man on the moon, but what about the last? Eugene Cernan left the final bootprint that may ever appear on the surface of our dusty satellite. Yet Cernan has ...

Although most people wouldn't see it for another year, 35 years ago today A Grand Day Out cemented a British institute in the ...

However, the US lunar program is delayed, in part because the spacesuits and lunar-landing vehicle are not ready. Meanwhile, ...

Sunset at Atlas and Hercules Craters from the Photographic Atlas of the Moon, by Robert Reeves. The moon is back in fashion, but how well do you know it? It's been over 55 years since Neil ...

It's 51 years since man landed on the moon! Celebrate one giant leap for mankind with this fun space game. Aim your jumps correctly to hop across the moon's surface, collecting lunar rock samples ...

A virtual army of 400,000 people worked to make John F. Kennedy’s challenge to land a man on the moon in 1969 a reality. They flocked to the Apollo program for many reasons. Some relished the ...

Although some opposed the tremendous outlay of taxpayer dollers to put a man on the moon, most Americans united in support of NASA's work against a common threat: Soviet domination of space.

More than 100 spacecraft have been sent to the Moon since 1959, when a Soviet probe became the "first man-made object to disturb the lunar surface", said The Times's science reporter Kaya Burgess.

in which both superpowers fought to be the first to put a man on the moon. As one of the most iconic images of the Space Race ...