In science-fiction stories, companies often mine the moon or asteroids. While this may seem far-fetched, this idea is edging ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

An illustration of ispace's Resilience lander. ispace Following its failed attempt to achieve a successful landing on the moon in 2023, there were high hopes that Japanese startup ispace would ...

Firefly Aerospace Over at the moon, things are busy this week as a lunar mission gets to work on its science research. The Blue Ghost mission from Firefly Aerospace performed a picture-perfect ...

The moon is hot right now. By some estimates, as many as 100 lunar missions could launch into space over the next decade — a level of interest in the moon that far surpasses the Cold War-era ...

Google will post the game on a monthly basis, coinciding with the moon cycle, and created desktop and phone wallpaper images of the 2024 moon calendar for download. Read More Google Doodle ...

For decades, the staggering cost of escaping Earth's gravity has limited our reach into space. Sending just one kilogram into orbit can run tens of thousands of dollars. Costs climb even higher ...

This time next year, NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years. NPR visited the facility to find out how astronauts are preparing for this high stakes exploration.

Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program, unveils China's moon-landing spacesuit on September 28, 2024 in the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing.

The Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon on December 11, in 1972. From that point on, literally for decades, NASA and the United States did not go back to the surface of our nearest planetary body ...

Command module pilot Michael Collins took this iconic Apollo 11 photo 55 years ago today, after his historic trip around the far side of the moon made him "the world's loneliest man".

The design makes the most of Hassell’s extensive experience of hypothetical space-based projects.The new master plan was developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency, ESA, and Cranfield ...