NASA announced on Thursday that the Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts on a flight around the moon, will be delayed until April 2026, pushing back the timeline for landing astronauts on the lunar surface. China claims it will land its own Moon mission by 2030, putting pressure on America to stay one step ahead of the communist country.
NASA has announced plans to use cargo landers developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver heavy equipment to the Moon in support of its Artemis missions. Each lander will be designed to carry between 26,000 and 33,000 pounds of cargo to the moon beginning in 2032.
The largest supermoon of 2024 will reach its peak illumination this week with a chance that it could have an orange, jack-o-lantern-like color, WKRC reported Friday.
There will be a “harvest” moon on Tuesday, which will appear full to delight viewers from Monday until early Thursday.
Scientists have discovered a cave on the moon at the Sea of Tranquility they say could provide shelter to future astronauts.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a bill that commits Russia to work with China on building a moon base.
A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon over the weekend and collected samples in the Communist state’s effort to compete with the United States.
According to a report recently released by NASA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the Orion spacecraft, designed to transport astronauts to the moon in the coming years, faced several critical issues during its 2022 uncrewed test flight.
NASA administrator Bill Nelson said recently that it is important for the United States to return to the moon before China stakes its claim.
Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is under fire for her remarks about the moon and sun, concluding the former is “made up mostly of gases.”
There are a few things to know as multitudes of people gear up to experience the total solar eclipse on Monday.
Space is the “most important frontier of our generation,” and it is particularly important for America to lead on this front, Michael Lukacs, a lead principle investor in the Odysseus Lunar Lander, which is reportedly on the moon now, told Breitbart News Saturday.
Another week, another private U.S. company launches a Moon shot. That was the result early Thursday morning as SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off and slipped the surly bonds of earth, setting course for a lunar touchdown.
Japan’s Moon lander resumed operations on Sunday some five days after it was reported to be in trouble on the lunar surface due to a lack of power.
Japan’s lunar lander ended up standing on its nose with its engines pointing at the inky sky after its touchdown on the Moon’s surface, images released Thursday appear to show.
The failed Peregrine lunar lander will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere late Thursday and burn up on re-entry somewhere over the South Pacific.
The NASA-backed Peregrine One moon lander is now hurtling back towards Earth after last week failing on its historic journey.
NASA is delaying plans to return astronauts to the Moon for the first time in half a century, announcing its call Tuesday as a much-hyped private U.S. lunar lander mission looked set to fail.
Legendary illusionist David Copperfield has made a wild new claim: “I’m going to make the moon disappear.”
NASA believes a moon crater 33 feet in diameter, found near where Russia’s Luna-25 intended to land, was caused by the failed landing.
Stargazers, get your binoculars and telescopes ready: A super blue moon will brighten the night sky on Wednesday, August 30th.
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission deployed its Pragyan moon rover on Thursday, beginning its cautious exploration of the lunar south pole while millions of Indians watched its livestream and celebrated the historic accomplishments of the mission.
The race between India and Russia to make the first landing near the Moon’s south pole took a dramatic turn on Sunday as Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft tumbled into an uncontrolled orbit and slammed into the lunar surface.
Russia’s unmanned robot lander, Luna-25, crashed after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported.
A lunar lander craft blasted off on Russia´s first moon mission in near 50 years, racing to get ahead of an Indian spacecraft.
Be on guard for werewolves twice next month, for August will have a blue moon — or two full moons — a rare occurrence that only happens every two and a half years.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, designed to ferry astronauts to the moon, has been reportedly found by an audit to be $6 billion over budget and six years behind its original schedule.
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Monday released a global map of Mars, compiled using images from the Tianwen-1 orbiter. The map used the names of Chinese towns and villages for 22 Martian terrain features.
A “Red’ Moon,” caused by a lunar eclipse and also called a “Blood Moon,” is rising on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8.
NASA has delayed the launch of the Artemis I after engineers discovered another fuel leak approximately three hours away from the beginning of its launch window.
NASA’s Artemis I missions, the first of which was postponed on Monday, will cost billions of dollars, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin told lawmakers earlier this year.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson raised concerns that China will claim the south pole of the moon where it is believed there’s water that can supply rocket fuel and said that
A Canadian space law amendment allowing for the prosecution of crimes committed on the Moon passed Canada’s House of Commons at the end of April, Euronews reported on Thursday.
Dmitry Rogozin, director of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said on Friday that he will pitch a joint project for a moon landing to his counterparts in China next month.
Lunar dust gathered by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission is scheduled for auction and is the only specimen allowed to be sold.
Sen. Maria Cantwell plans to attempt to use a bipartisan piece of legislation meant to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s technological advances to instead steer what could end up being a huge boon of a federal contract worth billions of dollars to a company operating in her home state owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos.
Just last week, NASA hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a private spacecraft, the Dragon, developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The milestones President Donald Trump made in U.S. space exploration will no doubt last light-years after he leaves office.
Samples collected by a Chinese probe on its recent visit to the moon will be sent to the hometown of late communist dictator Mao Zedong to “commemorate the leader and his passion for space exploration,” state media reported Thursday.
Israel announced plans Thursday to send a second spacecraft to land on the moon, after its first effort crash-landed last year.
