On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] With two astronauts on board, the lunar module Challenger touched ...

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Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing site. Their analysis points to a still-active fault that has been generating ...

Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...

The human desire to explore the moon continues to shape our history, and soon, it will take a giant leap forward with NASA's Artemis II mission, which has a launch window that opens in February 2026.

A team of scientists from Brown University has uncovered new sulfur isotopes unlike any found on Earth. The researchers analyzed lunar samples that had remained unopened since they were collected by ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details about their composition. Reading time 3 minutes Science has come a long way ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

They’re over the moon about the discovery. Scientists have discovered fresh signs that Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, could potentially house alien life deep within its subterranean seas, per a ...

Officially, Apollo 17 was the last mission to the Moon. But a retired astronaut claims Apollo 20 was real—and its mission was to salvage a crashed alien spacecraft. Ohio sheriff takes defiant stance ...

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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