JIUQUAN, China (AP) — A spaceship carrying three astronauts docked Thursday with China’s space station in the latest crew rotation, marking a further step in the country’s ambitions for a crewed ...

Resources thought to be present on the Moon include uranium, potassium, phosphorus, water ice, platinum group metals and ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this month's full moon from her place above Earth. The May 2025 full moon, dubbed the "Flower Moon," is seen above Earth's horizon in a ...

New Delhi: At a press conference from Houston, the four astronauts picked for the Artemis II mission revealed the name they had chosen for the Orion crew capsule that will ferry them to Moon orbit and ...

Second time unlucky: A US company's lunar lander appears to have touched down at a wonky angle on Thursday, an embarrassing repeat of its previous mission's less-than-perfect landing last year.

NASA is fast-tracking a plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 under a new directive from the agency’s interim administrator Sean Duffy. The plan revives a decades-old dream of scaling up ...

Just like sea-going ships, spacecraft meant to take humans beyond the borders of our world are baptized to reflect various things. Most of us, for instance, can still vividly remember the names ...

With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the ...

"Fiddler on the Moon: Judaism in Space" investigates how the religion would adapt to spaceflight and environments where ...

Three Chinese astronauts have been forced to extend their six-month stay in space over concerns their return ship may have been hit by debris, China’s space agency said. Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and ...

The moon's insides are crooked thanks to the near side being some 306 degrees Fahrenheit hotter at depth than its counterpart on the lunar far side. This is the conclusion of an international team of ...

They're not serving sushi on the Moon – yet – but if or when they do, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and DASSAI want sake on the table. To attain this quaffable goal, the companies are sending a rice ...