A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may ... pulled off by Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines ...

The $93.3 million mission comes as NASA plans to send humans back to the moon within this decade for the first time since the space agency's Apollo program came to an end more than 50 years ago.

After India successfully landed Chandrayaan-3, its third lunar mission near the South Pole of the Moon in August 2023, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) this week successfully completed ...

The Moon has made it onto the 2025 Watch list due to the increasing pace of lunar activities in the new Space Age, according to a statement from the organisation. "The Moon is included on the ...

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.

Why it's so special: This picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during ... above Saturn's largest moon. The probe's descent from its parent spacecraft, NASA's Cassini ...

More of a standing on the space porch and gawking at Earth, but it still counts. Meanwhile, on the Moon, some firsts were being clocked up in 2024. In January, the US commercial Peregrine mission ...

UNITED STATES: As the United States and the erstwhile Soviet Union competed fiercely during the space race of the Cold War decades, it was essential to demonstrate rendezvous and docking to achieve ...

Moon has been added to the list by World Monuments Fund. Moon has been placed on a list of threatened heritage sites as the space race risks jeopardising Earth's only natural satellite.

"We have about 100 places on the Moon where different nations have put material," Alice Gorman, a space archaeologist at Flinders University and one of the researchers who worked on the nomination ...