It's 55 years since US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong ... In the run-up to the Moon landing, the US was competing with the Soviet Union in something called the space race.

In fact, the astronauts—who returned to Earth March 18 after an extended nine-month stay at the International Space ...

The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. How can it keep ambitions for the Moon and ...

The Astrogeology Science Center, which has helped astronauts and robots reach other worlds safely, is facing a substantial ...

Two crew members will enter the lander, which will then undock and descend toward the lunar surface for an engine-assisted soft landing. On the moon, the astronauts will drive a Tansuo rover to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...

Andrew "Andy" Koy, commanding officer the USS Somerset, his crew and NASA's Artemis 2 landing and recovery ... crews to land at the moon's south pole. There, astronauts will gain the experience ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, ...

About five years ago, the Trump-appointed administrator of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, revealed the name of the program that would return humans to the Moon. It was to be Artemis, from a Greek goddess who ...

the sister of Apollo and namesake of NASA's current program to return astronauts to the moon; and representations of Earth, as where we come from, and Mars, as where we are ultimately headed.

That would be followed by a landing near the lunar south pole by astronauts no earlier than 2027. China is seeking its own astronaut moon landing by 2030. The Associated Press Health and Science ...