On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Luna 15, an unmanned spacecraft seen as a rival to the American Apollo 11 mission ...

While we may remember the "one small step" more than anything else, the first Lunar Rover has its own interesting story ...

Man on the moon 50 years later: Luna 15 The space race was still going on between the U.S. and the Soviet Union even as Apollo 11 astronauts were on the lunar surface.

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames ...

Over 50 years have passed since humanity last set foot on the Moon during Apollo 17 in 1972. Commander Eugene Cernan, the last man to leave the lunar surface, expressed hopes that humanity would ...

A Japanese company says a laser navigating tool doomed its lunar lander, causing it to crash into the moon. Officials for ispace announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday.

When Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, preparing to face a lifeless wasteland, they were taken aback to find the surface covered in gleaming orange glass beads. Tiny grains, about as small as a ...

More Amazingly, the samples of material from the moon retrieved by the Apollo missions are still providing new insights more than 50 years later, in this case how tiny glass beads that litter the ...

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, reveal their secrets.

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...