February 3, 1950, is remembered as the day the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on ...

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Why being first to return to the moon matters.

NASA’s plans to return to the moon continue to highlight goals of landing the first woman and first person of color on the ...

The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

A Pittsburgh company is gearing up for another try at a moon landing. North Side-based Astrobotic says its Griffin lander ...

Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...

Using energy greater than the global nuclear weapons inventory, an impact event carved two grand canyons into the moon’s ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare front-row seat of the spectacle in space. The phenomenon occurred when the blue ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth eclipsing the sun. See the dazzling views here.

NASA has updated its list of potential landing sites for the next human visit to the moon, which is planned for 2026. The Artemis III mission will see the first crewed lunar landing since the Apollo ...