A new video breaks down how the NASA Lunar Rover worked, and it’s a fascinating reminder of just how strange and clever this ...

Xu Wang, senior researcher at the lab and a CU Boulder physics lecturer, is leading the DUSTER proposal. He said in the lab’s ...

American geologist and astronaut Harrison Hagan Schmitt takes rock samples from the surface of the moon during America's last lunar landing mission of the 20th century, Apollo 17, December 1972.

Apollo 12, featuring astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean, successfully executed a precision lunar landing in Oceanus Procellarum on November 19, 1969, five days post-launch. During their ...

Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...

Before me is an expansive, arid landscape—a realm of valleys, chasms, and crevasses, of steep cliffs and dusty soil, framed by distant mountains. It might as well be on the moon itself, save for the ...

What Happened to the Apollo 11 Landing Site After 56 Years? In the absolute silence of the Moon, humanity left some of the loudest marks in history: footprints in the regolith, a laser reflector still ...

NASA’s Artemis program is preparing to send astronauts back to the Moon, and this time, they will be driving. As part of Artemis V, planned for around 2030, astronauts will explore the Moon’s south ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details about their composition. Reading time 3 minutes Science has come a long way ...

If the Artemis program achieves NASA's goal of returning astronauts to the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17, the people making the trip will eventually be joined by a new lunar rover.

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Coloradans got a glimpse Monday of what could be the first “moon buggy” to carry astronauts around the lunar surface in five decades, from when Apollo crewmen Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt last ...