When the Apollo 11 Lunar Module was running low on fuel and getting too close to the lunar surface to abort, alarms began to light up in Mission Control. The site for the July 20, 1969, landing had ...

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Behind the image of calm heroism, Neil Armstrong carried a burden few knew. Years before walking on the Moon, he lost his two ...

Saturday marked the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing — a landmark moment in manned space flight. In September 1962, President John F. Kennedy issued a bold challenge to land a man on the ...

Early this week, Facebook provided me with a sweet piece of serendipity when it served up a picture of the late Gene Cernan. I had taken and posted the picture in 2014, when Cernan, the last man on ...

Scientists could soon get a precise age for the giant impact basins on the moon, and a better understanding of the impact history of the young Earth, thanks to a new geological map of the moon's ...

NASA is sending a mobile robot to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice in the region and for the first time ever, actually sample the water ...