JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

On7, 1967, NASA's Surveyor 6 spacecraft made the first liftoff from the lunar surface. Surveyor 6 was one of several robotic ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...

After analyzing the sample brought by Chang'e-6, researchers found that the moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side ...

The nine shortlisted sites, which were released by NASA on Monday (Oct. 28), are geologically diverse, and each of them has ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...

The moon has a global dichotomy, with its near and far sides having different geomorphology, topography, chemical composition ...

On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The ...

The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago ...

NASA has plans to send astronauts back to the moon in 2026. Now, it is sharing a short list of locations where they could ...

Basalt samples returned by the Chang’e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago ...