Science news articles about 'first moon'

India celebrated the successful launch of its first moon probe Wednesday.

China's first moon probe Chang'e 1 crashed on purpose on Sunday.

BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - India has lost all contact with an unmanned spacecraft conducting its first moon mission, the national space agency said on Saturday.

Decades after the Apollo astronauts brought the first Moon rocks back to Earth, they are still providing scientists with new secrets.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China broadcast greetings and two Taiwanese songs from its first moon probe on Sunday, to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival when families gather to enjoy the bright autumn moon.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will launch a locally built rocket for the country's first unmanned mission to the moon on October 22, the head of the project said on Tuesday. "If ...

India's first moon probe has arrived in lunar orbit.

... is dated, which proves Harriot pre-dated Galileo, who has always been thought to have done the first observation of the moon through a telescope," said Alison McCann, an archivist at the West Sussex ...

WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it will have several events and activities to observe the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing that occurred July 20, 1969.

... that aims to put a little read cottage on the moon as a symbol of what one man can achieve. The robot will ... cabin from a space rocket, find a stable vacant lot, and erect the planet's first building.

Two private space firms plan to grow the first moon flowers.

NASA has launched its first moon shot in a decade. An unmanned rocket blasted off Thursday from ... scout out potential landing spots for astronauts. It's a first step in NASA's effort to return humans to ...

A new NASA probe beamed down live images of the moon early Tuesday.

A new NASA probe beamed down live images of the moon early Tuesday.

SPACE.com readers discuss the impact of the first moon rock samples returned to Earth by Apollo 11 astronauts.