But if you want to plant a flag on the moon and leave it there, it won’t flutter in the long run. China wants to address that through the interaction of electromagnetic fields.

Saturday is the 55th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, wherein astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted the first American flag on the Moon during their historic moonwalk.

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As there’s little atmosphere, the flag stayed in the same position once ... faint objects like stars simply aren't going to show up and the Moon landing image focuses on the subjects in the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the ...

About five years ago, the Trump-appointed administrator of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, revealed the name of the program that would return humans to the Moon. It was to be Artemis, from a Greek goddess who ...

Firefly is one of 13 companies eligible to compete for CLPS missions, precursors to future astronaut landings on the Moon under NASA's Artemis program. Now, Firefly finds itself at the top of the ...

Japan’s 1st moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM ...