During the Apollo missions, NASA cleverly detonated explosives on the Moon to investigate its seismic activity and inner structure. Seismometers recorded intriguing vibrations that persisted longer ...

Despite facing a harrowing crisis, the Apollo 13 mission still managed to execute a scientific experiment. They intentionally crashed the upper stage of the rocket onto the moon, resulting in seismic ...

Five pocket mice traveled around the Moon on Apollo 17 in 1972. These animals carried radiation detectors implanted beneath ...

A famous moon landing denier challenges the reality of Apollo missions. Instead of speculation, an actual Apollo astronaut responds. The difference between opinion and firsthand experience becomes ...

The Apollo 14 mission took a remarkable step in history by sending tree seeds into lunar orbit. After these seeds were brought back, the U.S. Forest Service managed to germinate them. During the ...

Long before NASA ever pointed a rocket at the moon, the U.S. Air Force was drafting blueprints for an underground military base staffed by 21 men, designed not for science, but for domination. This is ...

A piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that has been drifting through space since a January 2025 launch is believed to have ...

On August 10, 1961, NASA awarded the first Apollo development contract to the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory to design the ...

NASA’s lunar ambitions now depend on whether SpaceX or Blue Origin can deliver a functioning moon lander. Delays have ...

One of the concepts, a Venus flyby mission, would have been a bold undertaking indeed.

Rockets and their launches are built with multiple redundancies to ensure safety, but can they survive the intensity of a ...

China’s space program is having a landmark year, and clues to which nation is pulling ahead in the new moon race may be ...