India's second lunar expedition -- would shed light on a completely unexplored section of the Moon, its South Polar region
The equatorial diameter of the Moon is about 3,476km, while the polar diameter is 3,472km
The moon is often envisaged as a female entity, which inspired poems on the theme of her gaze as she looks down on Earth benignly
President John F. Kennedy announced that a national goal for the decade was to send a man to the Moon and back safely
Women have been historically excluded from the space program
For centuries, the dream of human travel into the cosmos has fired imaginations
Users would get to explore 20 new stories about lesser-known aspects of the mission and the people who contributed to it
There is a lot of documentation about what's been left on the Moon - but it's amazing how much we don't know
As a NASA airborne astronomy ambassador and director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Manfred Olson Planetarium
Four surprising technological innovations that came out of the Apollo moon landings
Moon landings footage would have been impossible to fake - a film expert explains why
In the US, opinion polls indicate that between 5-10% of Americans distrust the official version of events
Data & discoveries from Apollo missions, and especially Apollo 17 are still being investigated today
Multiple theories had tried to explain the stark differences between the two sides of the moon
As a result, the Moon has become about 150 feet (50 metres) "skinnier" over the past several hundred million years
The Israeli craft has been placed in Earth orbit, from where it will use its own engine to undertake a seven-week trip to reach the Moon and touch down on April 11 in a large plain
Here are some of the launches, space science and other events we anticipate.
China's artificial moon project could be a game changer
Since the dawn of the space age, there have been over 60 successful missions to the moon, including eight that were manned
Scientists had assumed for years that the interior of the Moon had been largely depleted of water