Apollo 8 spent Christmas orbiting the moon, and NASA is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a simulation of the historic Earthrise photo.
Yutu and the lander photographed each other on the moon's surface and sent live images to China’s space mission on Earth.
Chang'e 3 is the first spacecraft to land on the moon in 37 years.
As China focuses more attention on its scientific programs, one fantastic project has caught the eye of government funding.
To assemble the video, the spacecraft had to capture each frame at the exact moment the camera was facing Earth.
A massive impact about 4 billion years ago left a 2,500-mile crater, which is among the largest known craters in the solar system.
California-based Moon Express plans to send a spacecraft to the moon by 2015 and snag the Google Lunar X Challenge grand prize of $20 million.
Small villages near China's Chang'e-3 rocket launch site have reportedly been hit by pieces of metal from the rocket.
If successful, China will become only the third nation to send a rover to the moon's surface.
This will be the first life sciences experiment on another world and the first step in the use of plants for human life support.
China is set to achieve a major headway in its ambitious space program with the launch of Yutu moon rover, on Monday.
A Japanese construction company has proposed a “lunar solar power generation concept” for inexhaustible, clean energy.
China's ambitious space program has set its sights on the moon before the end of the year.
New images belonging to NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission sheds some light on why the face of the moon is rugged.
NASA's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration, aboard LADEE, set a new record for download rates.
Based on new calculations, researchers believe the moon is 100 million years younger than previously thought.
A bright full moon is scheduled to bloom several days before the Northern Hemisphere enters the fall season.
Remote cameras captured an airborne frog during NASA's launch of LADEE.
NASA’s LADEE probe was launched successfully Friday and will spend the next 160 days studying the moon’s atmosphere.
NASA’s new lunar mission will test space laser communication technology, which is expected to enhance broadband capabilities beyond Earth.
Amid concerns over China’s space programs in the West, the country announced it will launch its first spacecraft to the moon by the year-end.
Evidence of magmatic water on the lunar surface could help understand how the moon was created.