Moon

NASA believes a moon crater 33 feet in diameter, found near where Russia’s Luna-25 intended to land, was caused by the failed landing.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission deployed its Pragyan moon rover on Thursday, beginning its cautious exploration of the lunar south pole while millions of Indians watched its livestream and celebrated the historic accomplishments of the mission.

The race between India and Russia to make the first landing near the Moon’s south pole took a dramatic turn on Sunday as Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft tumbled into an uncontrolled orbit and slammed into the lunar surface.

Russia’s unmanned robot lander, Luna-25, crashed after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported.

Be on guard for werewolves twice next month, for August will have a blue moon — or two full moons — a rare occurrence that only happens every two and a half years.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, designed to ferry astronauts to the moon, has been reportedly found by an audit to be $6 billion over budget and six years behind its original schedule.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Monday released a global map of Mars, compiled using images from the Tianwen-1 orbiter. The map used the names of Chinese towns and villages for 22 Martian terrain features.

NASA has delayed the launch of the Artemis I after engineers discovered another fuel leak approximately three hours away from the beginning of its launch window. 

NASA’s Artemis I missions, the first of which was postponed on Monday, will cost billions of dollars, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin told lawmakers earlier this year.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson raised concerns that China will claim the south pole of the moon where it is believed there’s water that can supply rocket fuel and said that

A Canadian space law amendment allowing for the prosecution of crimes committed on the Moon passed Canada’s House of Commons at the end of April, Euronews reported on Thursday.

Dmitry Rogozin, director of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said on Friday that he will pitch a joint project for a moon landing to his counterparts in China next month.

Lunar dust gathered by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission is scheduled for auction and is the only specimen allowed to be sold.

Sen. Maria Cantwell plans to attempt to use a bipartisan piece of legislation meant to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s technological advances to instead steer what could end up being a huge boon of a federal contract worth billions of dollars to a company operating in her home state owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Just last week, NASA hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a private spacecraft, the Dragon, developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The milestones President Donald Trump made in U.S. space exploration will no doubt last light-years after he leaves office.

Samples collected by a Chinese probe on its recent visit to the moon will be sent to the hometown of late communist dictator Mao Zedong to “commemorate the leader and his passion for space exploration,” state media reported Thursday.

Israel announced plans Thursday to send a second spacecraft to land on the moon, after its first effort crash-landed last year.

This month for this first time since 1226 people can see the ‘Christmas star’ believed to be seen by shepherds on the night of Christ’s birth.

A Chinese space mission successfully unfurled the communist country’s flag on the moon, the state propaganda outlet Global Times announced Thursday.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket suffered another setback this week after it partially burst apart during pressure testing in Texas.

Nov. 14 (UPI) — The 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 12 launch is reviving memories of how the United States made its first return to the moon.

The Wall Street Journal claims that SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s optimism on his timeline to take humans to Mars stands in stark contrast with the extended delays SpaceX has suffered on a NASA project aimed at transporting astronauts to the international space station.

In April, we learned that an Israeli spacecraft, an unmanned 1290-lb lunar lander, had hard-crashed, not soft-landed, on the moon. These things happen; it’s not easy, after all, to make a soft landing on the lunar surface. In fact, only three countries—the U.S., Russia, and China—have managed that feat.

Boris Johnson, Theresa May’s expected successor as Prime Minister, has said Britain must approach Brexit with the same “can-do” spirit as 1960s America.

There are a number of movies and documentaries to remind us, not only of a better Hollywood, but of that time 50 years ago when America was its most American.

The New York Times and Washington Post used the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space flight and moon landing to push a “political knife fight,” said Robert Charles, spokesperson for the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), in a

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated in a recent interview that he believes it possible to send a manned mission to the moon within the next two years and a crew to Mars within the next four.

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said the agency is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission with plans for a Mars landing.

SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was mocked on Twitter recently for mistaking the moon for Mars in a tweet. The tweet was a meme reading “occupy Mars,” but mistakenly featured an image of a blood moon instead of the red planet.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos traded barbs about their competing space exploration plans this week in a clash of the space-obsessed billionaires.

Vice President Mike Pence promised at the Satellite 2019 Conference in Washington, D.C., this week that the first woman on the moon will be an American.

Long ago, Israelis decided not to let their fate or well-being be determined by their enemies — or their own failures.

An Israeli team aiming to land a spacecraft on the moon in two weeks can now expect more than glory if it works. How about a cool $1 million?

A hitch in computer systems Monday evening caused an Israeli lunar spacecraft to miss a scheduled adjustment in its trajectory en route to the moon, engineers reported on Tuesday.

The China National Space Administration has announced a second “first-ever” in space exploration on Tuesday as tiny sprouts sprang up from cotton seeds taken on a spacecraft that made a successful maiden journey to the far side of the moon this month.