Chandrayaan-3

The first-ever subsurface measurements of lunar temperature showed wide differences, which could help lead further expeditions to possible water sources.

The Indian government has approved $2.7 billion in new spending for its space program.

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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave about an ancient magma ocean on the moon, the snake problem of Florida's Everglades, and why scrolling through video clips bores us.

Indian mission's findings support Lunar Magma Ocean theory

Rocks collected by the Chandrayaan-3 offer more clues to the moon's violent past.

Photos of the moon captured by American, Russian, European, Japanese, Indian, Korean and Chinese spacecraft are the subject of new United Nations stamps for ...

NASA's Lunar Orbiter captured a fuzzy image of the rare encounter

An artist's rendition of the SLIM lunar lander on the moon's surface. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Japan staked a claim as a national space power on

A reanalysis of 50-year-old Apollo mission data long abandoned by NASA has revealed 22,000 previously unrecognized moonquakes, almost tripling the known number of seismic lunar events.

The Indian Space Research Organisation's historic Chandrayaan-3 moon lander managed to keep moon dust off its cameras thanks to a special engine setup.

For the first time since 1972, the United States is back on the moon.

Intuitive Machines successfully landed its spacecraft on the moon's south pole in a historic mission that puts the U.S. back on lunar soil for over 50 years.

A private U.S. lunar lander reached the moon and eased into a low orbit Wednesday, a day before it will attempt an even greater feat — landing on the gray...

Japan's SLIM spacecraft made a strange but precise lunar landing, touching the moon with the tip of its nose as it landed incredibly close its target...

Japan is the fifth nation to land on the moon.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon when it attempts a precision landing on Friday, in what would be a...

ISRO plans 12 ambitious space missions in 2024, including the Gaganyaan crewed mission. Despite achievements, India aims to increase its 2% global space economy share.

When a rocket makes its inaugural liftoff attempt Monday, it will carry nothing less than the first lunar lander to launch from the US since NASA's final...

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