However, researchers may now be closer than ever to finding the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 spacecraft. Using an advanced machine learning program, an international team of scientists believe they have ...

Elon Musk’s ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat for a rather nearer and more achievable goal – ...

Three developments stand out that will make the return to the moon effort different from the first time we visited Earth’s ...

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 ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will take a hiatus from its New Shepard spaceflights in Texas to develop a moon lander for NASA that ...

As NASA prepares for astronauts' first lunar fly-around in more than half a century, take a look back at 60 Minutes' Artemis coverage.

History recalls the names of Borman, Lovell, and Anders; of Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin; of Apollo 13’s Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise. It may soon recall, as ...

Blue Origin’s next launch from the Space Coast could still be its uncrewed and newly named Blue Moon MK1 lander, but it will have to take a trip to Houston and back before it can get to the moon. The ...

It has been 56 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left the Moon. But is the landing site really frozen in time, or has the harsh lunar environment destroyed our history? We often imagine the ...

Factory was a major part of the Apollo 11 mission, working on chipboards as an electronic assembler for Apollo 11 with North American Rockwell, known now as Boeing. Factory received all sorts of ...

In 1841, Swiss physicist Jean-Daniel Colladon at the University of Geneva demonstrated to his students that light could be guided through total internal reflection. This phenomenon occurs when a ray ...