When NASA’s Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon in 1969 as the first humans, the length and extent of their extravehicular venture were mostly dictated by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amy Fritz, a dust-mitigation researcher at Johnson Space Center, pours simulated lunar dust into a bed tray for testing hardware ...

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

Japan's space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system—although the ...

What just happened? For decades, scientists have puzzled over the origin of water on the Moon, a resource that could prove vital for future lunar exploration. Since the 1960s, a leading hypothesis has ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The United States and China are caught in a race to return to the Moon. The two superpowers are hoping to reach the lunar surface by 2028 and 2030, respectively, in a rivalry that could have sweeping ...

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Building a space station on the moon might seem like something out of a science fiction movie, but each new lunar mission is bringing that idea closer to reality. Scientists are homing in on potential ...