The Latest Breaking News from Moon

Hyderabad-based numerologist buys 5-acre plot on Moon; Bengaluru IT employee owns 2-acre plot; UN Treaty states Moon is common heritage of mankind.

More than half of Americans said in a new Pew survey that space exploration was essential, but only 12 percent said sending human astronauts to the Moon should be NASA’s top priority.

At a press conference for NASA’s Artemis II mission, Bill Nelson expressed concern over what would happen if China arrived at the Moon before the U.S.

India's Chandrayaan-3 rover reached lunar orbit on Aug. 5, sharing new photos and videos of the moon ahead of its planned Aug. 23 landing.

Nasa held a news conference on Tuesday, 8 August, to provide an update on the Artemis II mission to send four astronauts around the moon and back to Earth.

Successful soft landing will make India the first country to do so close to the lunar South pole

The video was released hours before the second major manoeuvre which is to take place on late August 6 night.

ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 entered the lunar orbit on August 5. The spacecraft has covered two-thirds of the distance to the Moon. Minister Jitendra Singh assures "nothing to worry" as the landing will occur in a week. ISRO will perform manoeuvre when Chandrayaan-3's orbit is closest to the Moon.

As space travel becomes more common, so does the possibility that someone might die along the way.