Intuitive Machines, which landed on the moon with its robotic IM-1 mission in February 2024, will be launching IM-2 as soon ...

On this date, Jan. 2, 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 1. The probe would pass within 3,725.5 miles of the moon but did ...

In July 1969, the United States achieved a monumental feat in human history when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the ...

A large team of researchers with varied backgrounds at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found evidence of a weak magnetic ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission where humans orbited the moon and returned home, marking a huge step forward in human and ...

NASA has long been highly visible and is among the most celebrated programs in modern United States history. Some generations ...

In 1959, in humanity's first ever moon mission, the Soviet Union's Luna 1 took 34 hours to reach the moon. This uncrewed mission was intended to impact the moon's surface, but the spacecraft went ...

On September 13, 1959, the Soviet Union achieved a significant milestone with the Luna 2 mission, successfully crashing a spacecraft onto the Moon and placing metallic pennants with the U.S.S.R.'s ...

December 1968 was a difficult time for many in the world, as war and hostages, riots and assassinations drew our attention.

The entire mission is set to last 53 days. China in 2020 returned samples from the moon’s near side, the first time anyone had done so since the former Soviet Union in 1976. Analysis of the ...