Moon

The Indian space agency aims for yet another accomplishment. A week after its successful unmanned Moon landing, a mission to explore the Sun will be launched on Saturday. At 11:50 am (0620 GMT), Aditya-L1 will launch...

The lunar south pole’s existence of sulfur has been verified by India’s Moon rover, according to the nation’s space agency. India this week made history by landing a spacecraft for the first time close to the...

The Luna-25 probe, Russia’s first Moon mission in nearly 50 years, crashed on the Moon’s surface as a result of an unidentified mishap during pre-landing maneuvers, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced on Sunday. The accident...

An expanding, low-cost aerospace program led by India will launch its most recent attempt at an unmanned lunar landing on Friday, quickly approaching the benchmarks set by the world’s superpowers. If the mission is successful, China...

NASA is on track to launch a crewed mission around the Moon in November of next year after a successful unmanned test flight, the US space agency said Tuesday. NASA officials provided an update on the...

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa announced on Thursday eight crew members who will join him for a journey around the Moon planned for 2023 on a SpaceX rocket that is still under development. The mission, known as...

Australian scientists are trying to grow plants on the Moon by 2025 in a new mission unveiled Friday that they said could help pave the way for a future colony. Plant biologist Brett Williams, from the...

NASA will make a second attempt to launch its powerful new Moon rocket on Saturday, after scrubbing a test flight earlier in the week, an official said. The highly anticipated uncrewed mission — dubbed Artemis 1...

A voyage to the Moon is scheduled to take place in less than two weeks, and NASA’s enormous new SLS rocket arrived at its launchpad on Wednesday in Cape Canaveral. The Artemis program, which aims to...

The Apollo missions to the Moon brought a total of 2,196 rock samples to Earth. But NASA has only just started opening one of the last ones, collected 50 years ago. For all that time, some...