Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
About five years ago, the Trump-appointed administrator of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, revealed the name of the program that would return humans to the Moon. It was to be Artemis, from a Greek goddess who ...
Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...
Tom Hanks is taking people on a virtual ride to the moon. At Space Center Houston, visitors can experience an immersive 270-degree multi-screen view of the Apollo missions.
Artemis II, scheduled for 2026, will be the first crewed mission of the program, orbiting the Earth and Moon with four astronauts. NASA is set to return humans to the moon, and its Artemis program ...
NASA's grander goals through its Artemis moon program are to return astronauts to the lunar surface and establish a long-term human presence there. IM-2 was in service of that vision. Athena's ...
Elon Musk's SpaceX has been developing Starship in its effort to ultimately help settle the moon and ... And a trip to Mars is on the drawing board. ESA's Euclid spacecraft unveils 'gold mine ...
Unlike a partial or total lunar eclipse, the moon won't darken or turn red; during a penumbral eclipse the moon only looks a little darker than normal. The full moon of March, called the Worm Moon ...
Blue Ghost will spend the vast majority of its mission in lunar daylight, basking in the warm glow of the sun’s rays and drawing energy ... aims to land astronauts on the moon for the first ...
The start and conclusion of each month in the Islamic calendar are set through the sighting of the crescent moon, which occurs shortly after the new moon. It is marked by fasting for a month from dawn ...
which ended up making China the first country to successfully retrieve samples from the moon's far side. China and Pakistan will spend roughly a year selecting the Pakistani astronauts ...
Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface in 1972. It’s long gone, but a digital copy is headed back in a data storage payload aboard Intuitive ...