Lunar Mission

Orion crew capsule: What you need to know about NASA's new mega moon rocket

Lift-off is slated for early Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The test flight aims to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit 50 years after NASA's famed Apollo moonshots

Moon rocks brought back by China's mission revealed new info about ancient lunar volcano activity

The samples showed that volcanic activity occurred on the moon as recently as two billion years ago, compared to previous estimates that thought it halted some 2.8 billion and three billion years ago.

Russia will delay lunar mission due to 'problems' during its Luna-25 spacecraft test: Roscosmos

The country's space agency announced last week that the mission -- originally scheduled for 1 October -- from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East had been moved to May 2022.

SpaceX will launch the DOGE-1 satellite to the moon, funded by Dogecoin

The cubic satellite, weighing 40 kilograms, will be launched in the first quarter of 2022 on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

China's Chang'e 5 completes drilling into the moon almost two days after landing on the Ocean of Storms

The lander has begun drilling in the moon's surface using a robotic arm and will do so for two days to collect around two to four kgs of lunar samples to bring back.

China's lunar probe — Chang'e 5 — fired up its engines, has begun its three-day journey back to Earth

The rocks may be billions of years younger than those brought back by US and Soviet missions, offering insights into the moon’s history and that of the solar system.

China's new Chang'e-5 mission to collect moon rock samples and bring it back to earth

The original mission, planned for 2017, was delayed due to an engine failure in the Long March 5 rocket.

China moves Long March-5 rocket to launch site ahead of Chang'e 5 lunar lander launch

Chang’e 5, scheduled to launch early next week, aims to put a lander on the moon to drill and scoop up rocks and debris to return to Earth.

After taking a nap, China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 24th lunar day

The lander woke up at 12.42 am IST (3.12 am Beijing time) on Tuesday while the rover Yutu-2 woke up at 7.47 am IST (10.17 am Beijing time) on Monday.

Blue Origin launches its New Shepherd rocket to test NASA's lunar landing tech

Delayed three weeks by technical issues, this was the 13th New Shepard flight for Blue Origin. The first was in 2015.