The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...
JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...
The last time a human visited the moon was in December 1972 during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. Since then, there have been many ...
The nine shortlisted sites, which were released by NASA on Monday (Oct. 28), are geologically diverse, and each of them has ...
The space superpowers set to land astronauts on the Moon — the U.S. and China — should forge a lunar peace pact protecting ...
NASA has unveiled nine potential landing regions near the moon's South Pole for the Artemis III mission, marking the first ...
Back in 1969 – more than a half-century ago – Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon. At ...
After analyzing the sample brought by Chang'e-6, researchers found that the moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side ...
China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...
In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...
Japan’s 1st moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM ...
The first surface samples retrieved from the dark side of the moon show that there used to be erupting volcanoes there, just ...