While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

People have been left surprised to learn the amount of money Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin claimed back from his historic ...

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

Sonoma’s Rusty Schweickart appears in “Apollo 1,” a new documentary film about the mission, and will participate in a panel ...

Thanks to visual effects artist, Michael Ranger, we’ve all been able to get a look at more of the Moon and see what it would ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission, a part of NASA's $2.6 billion Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, was on track for its target landing at 12:32 p.m. Thursday near the moon's ...

It was the second moon landing this week by a Texas company under NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program. Sunday’s touchdown was a complete success. Intuitive Machines’ newest Athena ...

Before any experiments can begin, Intuitive Machines must stick the landing -- a challenge made harder by the Moon's lack of atmosphere, which rules out parachutes and forces spacecraft to rely on ...

At a post-landing news conference ... Mr. Trump’s signing of the directive included Buzz Aldrin, the second person to step on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission after Neil Armstrong, and ...

President Trump set the U.S. on a path to sending astronauts back to the lunar surface during his first term. Lately he has ...