China has conducted two spacewalks from its Tiangong space station in as many months and is advancing on its lunar ...

China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

In the heat of the Cold War, the CIA pulled off one of its boldest and most secretive missions - stealing a Soviet spacecraft ...

As Axiom Mission 4 lifts off, taking astronauts from India, Poland, and Hungary to space, here's a list of space films and ...

What prospects does space open up for us? New industries have been created in Belarus in recent years — space and nuclear energy.

Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, 52, who used the University of Manchester’s 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England, to track the Soviet spaceship Luna 10 on its successful moon mission ...

A Soyuz spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan carrying two Russian and one US astronaut landed on the International Space Station on Tuesday where the crew are set to carry out 50 scientific ...

The Luna 10 mission, launched on March 31, 1966, was not only the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon, but also the first human-made object to orbit any astronomical body beyond the Earth. A.S ...

Soviet engineers improved its spacecraft, and by March 1966, the Luna 10 was ready to launch and complete its first orbit of the moon, which it did on the morning of April 3, 1966, just in time to ...

Delivered to the Moon's orbit by Soviet spacecraft Luna 17 on November 15, the spacecraft made a soft landing in the Sea of Rains on November 17.

On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it became the first robotic spacecraft to return a sample of lunar soil to ...

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to land on the moon.