NASA launches humans to moon for first time in half-century

For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are on their way to the moon. NASA’s colossal Space Launch System rocket ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Why Everyone Is Heading Back to the Moon

A handful of other countries have their own lunar programs, as does the European Union. Through 2030, governments and private entities have planned more than 400 missions in the next two decades to ...
Nature

The Moon belongs to all of us — not just countries that can afford to reach it

Moriba Jah is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, co-founder of GaiaVerse and chief scientist at Privateer. On 1 April, four humans left Earth to swing ...
EurekAlert!

Water on the moon? New study narrows down the mostly likely locations

Water likely accumulated on the moon slowly over billions of years, rather than during one big event, according to a new study by an international team of scientists The researchers, including Paul ...
New Scientist

The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon

On 6 April, the astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew in a loop around the far side of the moon. They travelled more than 406,700 kilometres from Earth, further than any humans have travelled ...
New Scientist

The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon

For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, humans have visited the moon. On 6 April, the four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew around the far side of the moon, taking them the furthest ...