When we think of space exploration, images of rockets, astronauts, and the Moon often come to mind. But humanity’s journey beyond Earth has left behind some truly unexpected items, some bizarre, some ...

Humans have left much more than footprints on the moon since the space age started in the 1950s. Here's a guide to what's up there. 1959: The first human object on the moon The Soviet spacecraft Luna ...

For more than half a century, scientists pictured the Moon as an almost fully reduced world where iron stayed locked in ...

Twelve American astronauts participated in the Apollo missions (11-17), with the first Moon landing occurring on July 20, 1969, and the last on December 14, 1972. The Moon's surface gravity is ...

(CNN) — Nearly five months ago, a SpaceX rocket launched out of Florida carrying two lunar landers. The Blue Ghost spacecraft, from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, zoomed to the moon, and in March it ...