Rather than forming from an ancient collision between Earth and another planet, the moon may have been snatched from another ...

But if things had gone differently, the Russian might have become the first person to walk on the Moon. Read the story of the first spacewalk, and how the mission nearly didn't come back to Earth.

Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947, Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship to pursue a degree in ...

Hours later, at 21:56 CT (02:56 GMT), Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first person to walk on the Moon. Originally inspired by the US's Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union ...

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. These programmes and clips tell the story of the Apollo Moon missions, how they got off the ground and why the missions ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space ... in competition with the US to reach the moon. Leonov’s walk on 18 March 1965 was not without its ...

When NASA's Artemis 3 crewed mission lands on the lunar surface a few years from now, the first astronauts to walk on the moon since the Apollo age will be able to take advantage of something ...

In 1971, American astronaut Edgar Mitchell spent nine hours walking the surface of the Moon as part of the Apollo 14 program.

European astronauts trained for future moon missions on Wednesday in a lunar simulator in Germany. The European Space Agency ...

What's it like to walk on the moon? Join the Apollo astronauts on the surface in this series of stunning 360-degree panoramas, one each from the six successful Apollo moon landings. Shot by the ...

These days, we are used to having a number of robotic rovers (and briefly, a helicopter) driving and flying around the Moon ...