NASA announced the names of the 18 astronauts that will start training for its new moon mission, Artemis. Of the 18, half are women. One of them will be the first woman to walk on the moon. Safety is a…
Buzz Aldrin in 1969 became the second human to walk on the Moon, and now he believes humans could walk on Mars as soon as 2040. Achieving that goal would be a huge challenge. The journey would be complex and very…
Russian and European space agencies are working together to send a spacecraft to explore the Moon’s south pole. This area is one of the coldest places in the solar system. Some scientists think that it might have frozen water and other…
Think returning to the United States from the moon would be easier than returning from another country? Just ask Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. When they returned to Earth after their historic Apollo 11 journey to the moon, they were…
Ed White’s spacewalk in 1965 made it possible for Americans to walk on the moon just four years later. Forty-eight years after he was killed in a launch pad test, NASA presented White with a moon rock in honor of…
The United Arab Emirates released plans to launch its first space probe in time for the country’s 50th anniversary in 2021. The mission’s team consists entirely of Emirati scientists, and their probe is called Hope because they believe that their…