For the second time in as many months, a new mission to the moon is nearly ready to launch. Â As the new Moon race heats up, lunar science continues to expand our understanding of our constant gray companion and has revealed an answer to a centuries old question of asteroid bombardment in Earth’s past.
Following a December 7, 2018 launch on a Long March-3B/G3Z rocket, China has now landed…
In the history of spaceflight, three nations have successfully landed a spacecraft on the surface…
Speaking at the 2017 International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, Elon Musk has laid out…
China’s Chang’e-3 and the lunar rover Yutu (Jade Rabbit) have landed on the lunar surface…
The Chinese have begun their most ambitious lunar mission to date, following the successful launch…
NASA’s latest mission to the Moon launched aboard an Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket Friday night.…
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden has strongly ruled out missions to land on the Moon as…
The latest documentation relating to the efforts to create an Exploration Roadmap for NASA’s future…
The debut of the Space Launch System (SLS) will send the Orion (MPCV) on a…
If the first half of 2009 for NASA demonstrated the agency’s unwavering attention to safety,…
An Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and sister payload Lunar CRater…
Japan are heading to the moon following the launch of their SELENE (SELenological and ENgineering…
Europe’s three year moon mission has to come to an end, as SMART-1 completed its…
NASA researchers are working on an alternative form of space travel to the Moon, involving…
Jeff Hanley – manager of NASA’s new Constellation Program – believes the new mission to…
NASA will hold a press conference on Monday or Tuesday of next week to reveal…
In a pointed testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, former…
While Earth and Mars are known for their intense surface quakes, other terrestrial bodies in…
2024 was another busy year for space science, with many new missions, successes, and discoveries…
