NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon.

The lunar lander is called "Lanyue" (Embracing the Moon) and it "marks the first time that China has carried out a test for ...

A growing fleet of privately built spacecraft is preparing to attempt robotic landings on the moon as humanity's exploration ...

Stargazers will in one week have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a ...

During the Cold War, an unusual experimental jet became a critical training tool for NASA, allowing astronauts to rehearse lunar landing techniques years before Apollo. Flown by Neil Armstrong himself ...

Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic ...

McCormick highlighted how India achieved a complex Moon landing on a fraction of what similar programmes often cost.

The Space Launch System and Orion capsule are being transported to the launchpad before an astronaut mission that could ...

The crawler carrying the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft was built 60 years ago to haul NASA’s Saturn V rockets, then kept ...

The upcoming Artemis II mission will see NASA's spacecraft carrying four astronauts around the moon. This mission aims to surpass Apollo 13's distance record, focusing on safety and critical system ...

But machinery used on the moon must function in low gravity, a vacuum and amid abrasive lunar dust. It must also survive the two-week lunar night of electronics-killing temperatures that plunge to ...