During the US Apollo program, six crewed missions landed on the Moon starting with Apollo 11 in 1969, leaving a like number of flags. Now, China recently announced that one more flag will join the ...

In recent years, several spacecraft failed in their attempts to land on the moon. But 2025 may offer crucial second chances.

Intuitive Machines, which landed on the moon with its robotic IM-1 mission in February 2024, will be launching IM-2 as soon as January, also on a Falcon 9. The mission is optimized for the lunar south ...

Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from U.S. space firm Firefly, began their journeys into space on ...

“This unique landing site will allow our payload ... angling to compete with the ambitions of China, which is aiming to put boots on the moon by 2030. The pursuits by the US and China are ...

Built by Firefly Aerospace and Ispace, the pair of spacecraft will land separately in the moon's northern latitudes, conduct ...

Artemis delays raise questions about NASA's 2027 moon landing goal. Can the US maintain its lead in space exploration?

On tap are a flurry of moon landing attempts ... to join Russia (and the former Soviet Union), the United States and China as having independent human spaceflight capabilities, with its Gaganyaan ...

The World Monuments Fund list seeks to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.

"It might be a crash landing ... Apollo missions across the Moon's surface, and many other rovers and landers from nations around the world including the US, China, Russia and India.