Moon

How NASA spacesuits have evolved through the years

Technology has come a long way since NASA’s first Apollo missions. 40 years later, it aims to reflect those advances in its next-generation spacesuits.

NASA unveils new spacesuit specially tailored for lunar wear

Lunar haute couture now calls for something more form-fitting and appropriate for men and women alike.

NASA, Pentagon to test nuclear-powered rocket for future Mars missions

US space agency NASA announced it is partnering with the Pentagon’s DARPA to develop and test a nuclear-powered rocket engine to send astronauts on future missions to Mars. But some experts remain sceptical.

Year of the Water Rabbit: When is the 2023 Chinese Lunar New Year?

An estimated two billion people celebrate the Lunar New Year, which corresponds to the first new moon of the lunar calendar that occurs between late January to early February.

Last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dies at 90

Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968, part of first crewed Apollo mission paving way for 12 others to land on Moon in subsequent years, breathed his last in Houston, NASA says.

Japan billionaire Maezawa announces crew of artists for Moon trip

"I hope each and every one will recognise the responsibility that comes with leaving the Earth, travelling to the Moon and back," says Yusaku Maezawa.

NASA returning to Moon with most powerful, 32-storey tall rocket launch

Dubbed Artemis I, the mission brings the US a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo programme 50 years ago.

Australia plans to grow plants on Moon for future colonisation

Scientists say seeds would be carried by Beresheet 2 spacecraft — a private Israeli Moon mission.

Next attempt at NASA Moon rocket launch unlikely this month

NASA’s new Moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt this week to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit.

Fuel leak forces NASA to again postpone rocket launch to Moon

For the second time in five days, NASA has halted a planned attempt to launch the debut test flight of its giant, next-generation rocket, the first mission of the agency's moon-to-Mars Artemis programme.

NASA readies for Moon rocket launch attempt

The Artemis 1 mission is an uncrewed test flight. It will be the first launch for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the most powerful in the world and which has been in development for more than a decade.

NASA's rocket rolled out to launch pad ahead of Moon mission

For August 29 mission, called Artemis 1, the Orion capsule will launch atop the Space Launch System without any humans and orbit the Moon before returning to Earth for an ocean splashdown 42 days later.