Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar ...

Mars had been SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s longstanding focus. A year ago, he wrote in a post on X: "The Moon is a distraction.” ...

When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as February 6, they’ll climb aboard NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide Orion spacecraft with the understanding that it has a known flaw — one that ...

During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...

On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] With two astronauts on board, the lunar module Challenger touched ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Searching for clues on Phobos and Deimos. Mars has been studied and scrutinized more than any alien world. Since 1964, some 40 expeditions have been dispatched to the Red Planet. Orbiting spacecraft ...

Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing site. Their analysis points to a still-active fault that has been generating ...

Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...

The Apollo Prayer League worked to send Bibles to the moon. After succeeding in 1971, some of those Bibles on mircroform went to a church in Knoxville. It was a unique gift for a unique church. The ...

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