China set for in-flight abort test of Mengzhou crew spacecraft China appears set for an in-flight abort test of its ...

On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot ...

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

Apollo 14, the first lunar space mission after the crisis of Apollo 13, successfully landed on the Moon on Feb. 5, 1971.

Derry native Alan Shepard wasn't the first person to walk on the moon, but he was the first to hit a golf ball while up there ...

The new year has not started well for China, with two failures among its first six launches. Even so, 2026 is shaping up to ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

Russia has pushed back its Luna missions and shifted focus to a China-backed lunar base, with plans to deploy a nuclear power ...

The upcoming Artemis II mission is dubbed a huge leap in human space exploration, building directly on the uncrewed Artemis I ...

NASA’s Artemis II could be the first time human eyes set sight on the farside of the moon — and there are things human eyes can see that cameras can’t.

Kyle Jeter held up a 3-D printed Saturn V rocket – the colossal machine that catapulted the first U.S. astronauts toward the moon – in order to ignite a discussion about the last five decades of space ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission to carry four people around the moon and back could launch as early as this Sunday, Feb. 8. Backup ...