In shaking up its Artemis lunar program, NASA's new moon plan looks more like the Apollo missions of the 1960s. Instead of landing on the surface on Artemis III, NASA hopes to do so on Artemis IV.

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - NASA added a new mission to its Artemis moon program involving a spacecraft docking test in Earth's orbit before landing its first astronauts on the moon in over half a century,

To win the superpower race to the Moon, the U.S. could launch a super-speed crusade to develop a lander that beats Chinese taikonauts to the lunar surface. Shown here is Lockheed's leading-edge Orion capsule in orbit around the Moon. As the superpower race ...

NASA has successfully moved one of its Mars-orbiting spacecraft into a new position to provide prompt confirmation of the upcoming Aug. 5 landing of the new Curiosity rover on the Red Planet. The 11-year-old Mars Odyssey probe performed a six-second ...

Astronomers believe they may have found the final resting place of Luna 9, the Soviet spacecraft missing since it landed on the Moon on February 3, 1966. On January 31, 1966, the Soviet Union launched Luna 9 using a Molniya-M rocket.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — What goes up, must come down. While the flashiest part of space exploration is the launch, the landing is just as important to completing the mission, and they may one day be completed at Cecil Spaceport. The Jacksonville Aviation ...

Luna 9's landing was a pivotal moment in history. Airwolfhound via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-2.0 On February 3, 1966, a Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 showed the world it was possible to land on the moon. It neared the surface and spat out a capsule ...