Between 1969 and 1972, six Apollo missions successfully landed on the Moon. Each crew faced danger, discovery, and the thrill ...

The four crewmembers of NASA's Artemis 2 mission donned their launch suits to conduct their first suited crew test together ...

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just five remain.

Together, the successful tests of Mengzhou and Lanyue mark major milestones in China's lunar exploration strategy, aiming to ...

Known as Smilin’ Jim, Lovell was a veteran of the Apollo 8 lunar voyage and mission commander for the Apollo 13 flight.

Despite all the buzz around space tourism and giant rockets that can get us to the moon and beyond, life in space is still a long shot. Here's why.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's long-coveted plan to launch Artemis II around the moon is approaching fast.

The China Manned Space Agency announced that its manned lunar lander—named Lanyue, which means embracing the ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do ...

American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an ...

As if hard vacuum, intense cosmic radiation, corrosive dust, meteors, and temperatures whiplashing hundreds of degrees ...

Moonquakes, identified by a team of scientists led by Smithsonian Senior Scientist Emeritus Thomas R. Watters, pose a significant risk to future lunar bases.