NASA has signed multi-billion-dollar contracts with SpaceX and with Blue Origin to ferry its Artemis astronauts to the craters of the Moon in the second half of the 2020s, but the timeline of ...

Four small space companies plan to send rocket ships to the moon this year -- and two of them are already on their way. Intuitive Machines hopes to repeat its successful 2024 moon landing in 2025.

There are more ways for people to travel to space than ever before, and the next few decades are likely to see the US and China sending humans to the Moon again. Both countries aim to set up long ...

But as space becomes accessible to more nations and corporations, we need to stop and ask ourselves what commercial activities we want to allow, including on the moon. Now is the time to create ...

Sixty-five years ago, the USSR shocked the world by sending the first robotic emissary from Earth to the Moon. The September 1959 impact of Luna 2 on northeastern Mare Imbrium was a stunning ...

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For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the Moon through the Artemis Program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans ...

Get your binoculars out! On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to see Saturn vanish behind the crescent moon — an event known as a ...

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the moon through the Artemis program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 29, 2025, the moon is 30 days old, in the New Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 0% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky.

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...