A discarded part of a rocket should have crashed into the Moon's far side by now, say scientists who were expecting the impact at 12:25 GMT. The three-tonne rocket part had been tracked for a ...

A rocket launched by Elon Musk's space exploration company is on course to crash into the Moon and explode. The Falcon 9 booster was launched in 2015 but after completing its mission, the second ...

China has launched a probe which intends to collect the first samples from the far side of the Moon. An unmanned rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 probe blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch ...

While researchers have known since the last time we went to the Moon that rocket sandblasts can harm equipment and create substantial erosion, issues with exactly how that occurred made figuring ...

The core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is slated to launch astronauts around the moon since the Apollo era, was rolled out of the space agency’s Michoud Assembly ...

Boeing was contracted to develop a powerful new upper stage for NASA's Space Launch System, the gigantic rocket the agency is using to get to the Moon. The configuration, known as Block 1B ...

The uncrewed Vulcan rocket has launched from Florida to despatch a robotic spacecraft towards the Moon. The Peregrine lander is carrying five scientific instruments for the US space agency ...

SpaceX ’s Falcon 9 rocket that launched in 2015 will crash into the moon in five weeks. It will be the upper stage of the rocket that couldn’t return to Earth after it sent NASA’s DSCOVR ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Oct. 8, 2024, the moon is 6 days old and is in the Waxing Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 26% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in ...

Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2024. China has revealed the design of its moonwalking spacesuit, which the nation hopes ...

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Moon watchers will get a special treat this month: September's full "harvest" moon is also a supermoon, meaning it's slightly bigger and brighter than an average moon. The full moon will be ...