The Latest Breaking News from Moon

SpaceX has a tight hold on any plans for the US to send its astronauts to space – and onto the Moon and Mars

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Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the Moon has once again become a destination of fierce ambition and delicate engineering.

Volcanic eruptions were happening as recently as 120 million years ago, study suggests

A new technique using data gathered by a spacecraft has helped peer back billions of years

April 2025 was a busy month for space.

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 Nasa science programmes, potentially devastating high profile missions and international collaborations.

A Q&A with veteran director Masashi Koizuka about his new Netflix anime series Moonrise.

Time moves faster on the moon, and now we're one step closer to getting a lunar time zone to keep track of it.