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NASA plans to bring humankind back to the moon, but it first needs to figure out exactly where to land. The space agency has outlined nine potential lunar landing sites for its Artemis III mission, ...

Merry belated Christmas to you. Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University ...

An artist’s concept of an Artemis astronaut deploying an instrument on the lunar surface. NASA NASA has updated its list of potential landing sites for the next human visit to the moon, which is ...

China’s latest visit to the Moon is already proving a huge success. On Sunday, the country’s Chang’e-6 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon in the South Pole-Aitken basin, where it ...

We will never stop thinking and talking about the moon, says Matthew Shindell, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. “In cities where there is a lot of artificial light that ...

The world had watched, spellbound, as Apollo 11 made mankind’s first landing on the moon in July 1969. Fewer people paid attention when NASA sent its second mission to the moon four months later: ...

Apollo 11's mission still inspires optimism: eight in ten Americans say it represents the kind of achievement the U.S. is likely to achieve again someday. For many, it still towers over other events ...

Georges Méliès' 1902 film, A Trip to the Moon, was the first motion picture to visit the moon — and one of the first films with a plot. As a college sophomore, I knew exactly what the Apollo ...

Last year, NASA canceled the VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover”) in a move that scandalized proponents of a return to the moon. The space agency was just $84 million short of ...