Platoff explains that Apollo 11's flag-raising on the moon was strictly a symbolic activity. Given that the United States was a signatory to the United Nations Treaty on Outer Space, the nation ...

SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission, on the 100th launch from the same pad where ...

In July 1969, four faculty members traveled from College Park to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide last-minute ...

The World Monuments Fund has included the moon on its 2025 "Watch" list of cultural heritage locations facing significant ...

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is perfectly centered, his silhouette standing out against the monochrome lunar landscape. The ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

NASA's requested funding was spent on the Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities ...

A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.

For the first time, a location beyond Earth has been listed as vulnerable by the World Monuments Fund, an international ...

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Apollo 11 lunar samples, themselves. The four moon pebbles, which were embedded in a single lucite ball and mounted to a wooden podium together with ...

Every year, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) compiles a list of heritage sites it deems at risk, with the aim of building ...