(NASA) – On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard ...

Almost as tall as a football field, NASA's Space Launch System rocket and capsule stack traveled slowly—just under one mile per hour—out to the Artemis II launchpad, its temporary home at the Kennedy ...

NASA's Artemis II is poised for the first lunar mission since 1972—with much more to come.

Test features first flight and controlled vertical splashdown of a Long March-10 carrier rocket China has successfully completed a crucial safety test and fired off a new-generation rocket as part of ...

Beyond the record-breaking distance, Artemis II is a pivotal test flight for Nasa's next-generation hardware: the Space ...

NASA has launched a two-day countdown rehearsal for its next lunar mission, aiming to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time since 1972. With fueling scheduled and the rocket on the launch ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames Research ...

THE Moon’s “skin” is cracking as Earth’s lunar pal SHRINKS, scientists say. Rather than being a dead rock whizzing around Earth, our neighbouring moon is still active – ...

NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts lifted off early Friday morning for their ride to the International Space Station.

For the first time ever in Florida, SpaceX was able to land one of its Falcon 9 rockets just minutes after lifting off from ...

A film titled "Apollo 1" was screened at Kennedy Space Center for NASA's annual Day of Remembrance. The film documents the 1967 Apollo 1 tragedy where astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April 1970, more than 40 million people around the world watched the United States recover from a ...