Although the historic Apollo 11 mission made do with a 2.5-hour walkabout on the lunar surface, Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17 each had their own lunar buggy to drive around the moon’s powdery ...

Apollo astronauts drove around in a battery-powered space buggy, which was manually driven across the surface of the Moon. With its upcoming Artemis design, NASA wants to build a largely ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

Check out our full coverage of NASA's Artemis Moon program, the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, the recently concluded Artemis 1 mission around the Moon, the four-person ...

Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission — the last one that put humans on the moon. NPR takes a look at the mission and what it means for future travel to our lunar companion.

This is not your Apollo moon buggy. NASA wants a new moon rover. The space agency is seeking bids for a new vehicle that could be used not just to ferry astronauts around but to autonomously ...

Apollo 15 was the fourth American space mission to land men on the moon. On the historic 40th anniversary, we celebrate the often-overlooked voyage. See the full slideshow at LIFE.com.