Page 11 - Moon

Chandrayaan-2 performs 3rd lunar-bound orbit maneuver; landing in 11 days

India's second lunar expedition -- would shed light on a completely unexplored section of the Moon, its South Polar region

How big is moon and how far is it? Let's put facts into perspective

The equatorial diameter of the Moon is about 3,476km, while the polar diameter is 3,472km

Women yet to step on moon but well intertwined with it in literature

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

How drawing map of the Moon for Apollo became a national priority

President John F. Kennedy announced that a national goal for the decade was to send a man to the Moon and back safely

Less support from women in space exploration? Time to change perception

Women have been historically excluded from the space program

Space travel was a dream for artists long before Armstrong stepped on moon

For centuries, the dream of human travel into the cosmos has fired imaginations

Explore first moon landing in your living room with Google's 3D re-creation

Users would get to explore 20 new stories about lesser-known aspects of the mission and the people who contributed to it

Footprints on the Moon: An interview with space archaeologist Alice Gorman

There is a lot of documentation about what's been left on the Moon - but it's amazing how much we don't know

Rockets to satellites: Moon landing innovations that changed life on Earth

As a NASA airborne astronomy ambassador and director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Manfred Olson Planetarium

Water purification to breathing masks, 4 innovations Apollo mission gave us

Four surprising technological innovations that came out of the Apollo moon landings

Why moon landings footage would have been impossible to fake in 1969

Moon landings footage would have been impossible to fake - a film expert explains why

Reality or studio shoot? Why moon landing conspiracy theories still exist

In the US, opinion polls indicate that between 5-10% of Americans distrust the official version of events

'Peace & hope for all mankind': The stellar legacy of the last moon landing

Data & discoveries from Apollo missions, and especially Apollo 17 are still being investigated today

Moon mystery solved; massive impact behind two different faces: Study

Multiple theories had tried to explain the stark differences between the two sides of the moon

Moon is shrinking like a 'raisin', triggering wrinkles and quakes: Nasa

As a result, the Moon has become about 150 feet (50 metres) "skinnier" over the past several hundred million years

Israel's moon mission blasts off Florida; could be first pvt sector landing

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

Rocket launches, trips to the Moon and more space events in 2019

Here are some of the launches, space science and other events we anticipate.

Shooting for the moon

China's artificial moon project could be a game changer

Here's why we should forget about Mars right now and return to the moon

Since the dawn of the space age, there have been over 60 successful missions to the moon, including eight that were manned

Moon may have huge reservoirs of water trapped under surface: Scientists

Scientists had assumed for years that the interior of the Moon had been largely depleted of water