Several robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon can take detailed pictures of its surface, so why send people around the Moon? A ...

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...

A magnificent photograph of lunar module pilot Jim Irwin saluting the American flag at the Hadley-Apennine landing site during Apollo 15. The lunar module and rover appear behind him, to his left, in ...

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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 ...

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The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a century. But there's a developing twist: an emerging competition between ...

NASA's Apollo 11 mission made history in July 1969 as the first-ever spaceflight to land humans on the moon. But Kim Kardashian amplified a long-running conspiracy theory that the moon landing was a ...

UPDATE — 10/30/25, 4:10 p.m. ET: NASA has apparently heard that Kim Kardashian thinks the moon landing was fake, and they’re ready to correct the record. Duffy — who is himself a former reality star, ...

"I think it was fake," Kim claimed of Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 mission in the latest episode of 'The Kardashians' Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of ...

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy revealed that the agency is reopening the contract for the first U.S. crewed lunar landing since the 1970s, inviting proposals from companies beyond SpaceX’s ...