China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

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Lunar Commercial Orbital Transfer Services will likely allow visits of private astronauts to the moon, just as Commercial ...

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The 2026 Nasa budget proposal would slash around US$6 billion (£4.4 billion) in funding. This is a huge reduction, amounting to around 25% of recent Nasa budgets. The savings would mainly come from ...

Related NASA nixes VIPER lunar rover project Trump honors space exploration ... It would be the first time since Apollo 17 landed men on the lunar surface in 1972. The first human moon landing ...

The last time anyone drove on the Moon was way back in 1972 when the astronauts of Apollo 17 took the Lunar Roving ... include taking an all-new lunar rover with it, and it's just started testing ...

The test unit will employ a flexible architecture to simulate and evaluate different rover concepts for use beginning with Artemis V. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins takes Apollo 17 Lunar Module Pilot ...

Lego designers have done it again. One of the newest sets from the Technic team is a detailed recreation of the Apollo 17 lunar rover, which allowed the astronauts to travel the farthest distance ...

The set includes a displayable model version of the lunar rover module carried by Apollo 17, plus three attachable equipment sets," reads Lego's website. A natural follow-up to Lego's earlier ...