Exhaust from lunar landers drifts across the moon and contaminates ultra-cold polar craters that are rich in ancient ice and ...
Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.
NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.
Recovery crews extracting Shenzhou-20 commander Chen Dong from the Shenzhou-21 return module in Inner Mongolia, Nov. 14, 2025. Credit: CCTV/BACC HELSINKI — Three Chinese astronauts have safely ...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will take a hiatus from its New Shepard spaceflights in Texas to develop a moon lander for NASA that ...
Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after being stranded for nine days on the Tiangong space station. Their original return vehicle, the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, was damaged by space debris, ...
Before its final crash landing on the Moon, Japan’s Hakuto-R spacecraft snapped an extraordinary image of Earth, offering a rare and breathtaking view of our planet during a total solar eclipse. The ...
The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program ended on Jan. 19 when an uncrewed Shenzhou 20 capsule damaged by a space-junk strike came safely down to Earth.