If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

The mission is set for launch using a long March 5 rocket at the Wenchang satellite launch center in Hainan province on May 3. The spacecraft due to land on the moon is projected to weigh 3,200kg ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics will blast off ... rocket booster will propel the spacecraft past the ...

The first launch came on Sunday, with the enormous Starship rocket blasting off from the southern tip ... bound for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon ...

Two space mining missions are blasting off this week ... and begin extraction. The same rocket, a SpaceX Falcon-9, will also launch a NASA-developed moon-mapping satellite called Lunar Trailblazer.

pose with a model of the moon in 1969. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin pose in front of their Saturn V rocket on May 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong, front, waves as the crew heads to the van that will ...