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

Cables will be attached to the exterior of the astronauts' spacesuits, likely pulling back on them as they walk and suspending them as they jump. Fist-bumps on a fake moon: Governor of state North ...

Neil Armstrong is perhaps best known for saying 12 words on July 20, 1969: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap ...

Batman became the first superhero to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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

1675 on his right wrist, the first to ever bring a Rolex to the Moon ... immediately after the moon walk, and post-mission completion back on Earth. An otherwise standard 1675, the watch features ...

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

Yang Yuguang, a senior space industry observer and chair of the International Astronautical Federation's Space Transportation ...

This time next year, NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years. NPR visited the facility ...

The four primary phases of the moon (new moon, first quarter, full moon, last quarter) occur about a week apart, with the full moon its most dazzling stage. Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of Space ...

From cloud herdings to starling murmurations that send messages to a birdwatcher, these 22 speculative stories underline the ...