What was once the most important potato field in the world belonged to the Nurskanova family in the town of Engels, in the Saratov region of southwestern Russia. The days moved unremarkably on the ...

Yet no human has been back to the lunar surface since the last Apollo astronaut left it in 1972, and plans to put people on ...

"Decades of rapidly expanding space activity have shown that each launch leaves an environmental footprint, and it can take a long time to understand the impact fully. This is why it is so crucial to ...

The United States is back in the business of launching people toward the Moon. With a 322 ft tall mega-rocket now standing on its seaside pad in Florida, NASA has locked in the hardware for the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artemis II and its crew of four lift off from Kennedy Space Center April 1, 2026, on a 10-day mission around the moon and back.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It’s humanity’s first flight to the moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. They’ll hurtle ...

Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. stands beside the US flag during an Apollo 11 moon walk. Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the mission, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface ...