On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light on the lunar ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is officially in Florida and integrated with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in anticipation of its launch into space later this month. The petite satellite is set to launch no ...

The uncrewed Artemis I mission successfully sent the Orion spacecraft around the moon and back in 2022. The first crewed mission, Artemis II, is scheduled to launch in April 2026.

China launched the Chang’e-4 lander and rover mission to the far side of the moon in late 2018, with the lander and Yutu-2 rover touching down in Von Kármán crater Jan. 3, 2019.

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which launched in October 2024, will make significant progress on its journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa. In March 2025, the spacecraft will perform a flyby ...

A future lunar sample-return mission could put this to the test. If successful, it would provide a way to date other impact basins on the moon that have become much more degraded than the younger ...

While on the Moon, Lunokhod 1 was operated by a five person team 1.3 light-seconds away in Moscow on Earth, or about 384,000 kilometers (238,600 miles).

Retroreflectors Apollo missions 11, 14, and 15, along with two Soviet Lunokhod missions, left retroreflectors on the Moon. These devices reflect laser beams from Earth and allow scientists to ...

China lands on the Moon again, taking another step toward human missions The most dominant space storyline for the rest of this decade is the US-China race. Eric Berger – Jun 3, 2024 12:24 PM | 181 ...

When Apex Legends Season 21 kicks off next week, the game's fifth battle royale map, Broken Moon, will finally be getting a facelift. This is the longest any battle royale map in Apex Legends has ...

Observations made on the Moon’s surface by the Chang’e-3 and Chang’e-4 lander missions in 2013 and 2019, respectively, helped to verify the accuracy of the Chang’e-1 data.

So far, the moon has been explored in-situ by four-wheeled rovers, starting with Russia's Lunokhod 1 that arrived on the lunar surface in 1969 and traversed about 6 miles (10 kilometers) in 10 months.