When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An Indian spacecraft is carrying the first reflectors to be left on the moon since the Apollo era ...

Nature never intended for us to leave the planet. As a result, sending people and spacecraft into space comes with a unique set of challenges. Just ask the crew of The Ark, streaming now on Peacock.

An epic lunar laser experiment is still going strong, five decades after the Apollo astronauts set it up on the surface. The moonwalking crew of Apollo 11, which landed on the moon 50 years ago this ...

NASA is following in the footsteps of its Apollo days, stating that it has fit its Perseverance rover with a special type of reflector designed to be shot with lasers. The space agency did a similar ...

Scientists have successfully bounced a laser off the Soviet Union's old Lunokhod 1 rover, which trekked across the moon's landscape more than four decades ago. Lunokhod 1 was the first ...

A sample containing bacteria, however, makes portions of the reflectors go dark, signaling a positive test result. Raja explained that the change from bright to dark is one of several advantages of ...

The Tianqin laser ranging station of Sun Yat-sen University detected the echo signal from the next generation lunar retroreflector NGLR-1 and confirmed the success of the ranging experiment on ...

Scientists have successfully bounced a laser off the Soviet Union's old Lunokhod 1 rover, which trekked across the moon's landscape more than four decades ago. Lunokhod 1 was the first ...