Telescopes, ship navigation and eclipses spurred the first detailed charts of Earth's nearest neighbor. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were taken ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.

Five days after their Nov. 14, 1969, launch amid stormy skies, Apollo 12's Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed on the Moon in Oceanus Procellarum (the Ocean of Storms). Part of Apollo 12's mission was to ...

NASA's objective was for the experiment to only last for five years. The Apollo 11 crew didn't just just accomplish landing on the lunar surface and returning safely — the men also conducted several ...

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A man on the moon was, for much of human existence, a metaphor for an impossible achievement. Yet the impossible became a reality on July 20, 1969, when American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin ...

On 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil ...

We've been mapping the moon in detail ever since telescopes were invented. The U.S. Library of Congress gave Space.com permission to publish photos of a few of the moon maps in its possession, some of ...