China's Yutu-2 rover captured imagery of the lunar surface. See rover tracks and views from the far side of the moon. Credit: ...

NASA is launching the second mission of the Artemis campaign to explore more of the moon than ever before, and University of ...

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it ...

NASA and Japan are quietly lining up behind one of the riskiest bets in modern lunar exploration: a mission that will try to drill into the Moon’s frozen south pole and prove that water can sustain ...

NASA has already set a date for a mission that will study how space radiation affects humans on the surface of the Moon.

A University of Arizona-led team using a camera orbiting Mars has captured the closest images yet of an interstellar comet so rare that it has sparked wild speculation about its alien origins. The ...

China just took another step toward landing astronauts on the moon, acing a key abort test with its Mengzhou crew capsule and ...

At that altitude, orbital speed matches our planet's rotational speed, allowing satellites to "hover" over a particular patc ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — After launching from Florida's space coast and cruising toward the moon for the last five months, the Japanese company ispace is preparing to touch down its lunar lander on ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that, starting with Crew-12 and Artemis II, astronauts will be able to take modern smartphones to space.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a major first by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence rather than human operators. Credit: NASA. An AI just ...