No one has set foot on the moon since America left in 1972. NASA is heading there again, but hasn't explained why the trip ...

NASA is under enormous pressure to return astronauts to the Moon before China achieves its first crewed landing, but experts question whether the Artemis program can overcome delays, technical hurdles ...

NASA's Artemis II mission is sending humans back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. Here are the reasons ...

Just before my final, 2001 shuttle mission to help build the International Space Station, I asked the NASA chief of human spaceflight when he thought we’d return to the moon. "Oh, probably not until ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The space race is increasingly looking like China’s to lose.

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Humans are due to land on the moon again in 2027—a return that comes at a time of growing geopolitical tensions reminiscent of the Cold War in many respects: rearmament, new power blocs, and ...

The 2026 version of the NASA authorization bill that passed out of Senate Commerce is as different from the 2010 legislation ...

A permanent Moon base is moving closer to reality in 2026. The NASA Authorization Act 2026 has given clear political backing.

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April 1970, more than 40 million people around the world watched the United States recover from a ...

Not a US flag in sight Researchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nation’s first crewed mission to ...