The largest optical telescope currently is the Keck Telescope ... Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left the first American flag ...

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same condition as when they were first deployed on the lunar surface.

Fifty-five years ago, millions around the world were glued to their television screens as two humans prepared to set foot on an uncharted world. Over 3,80,000 kilometres away, the lander began its ...

While lunar images have proven that the American flags planted during the Apollo missions are still standing on the moon, lunar scientists have now said that they probably no longer hold the ...

Meanwhile, the waxing crescent moon was about 30% illuminated, according to In-the-Sky.org. The images captured by the Virtual Telescope Project offer a stunning view of the moon’s deep craters ...

Now, NASA’s dreaming even bigger. What if it could build a big radio telescope up on the Moon? NASA’s concept to turn a moon crater into a radio telescope using a number of cooperative rovers.

It has been 54 years since NASA landed astronauts on the Moon for the third time. On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan ...

Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong is captured in an image taken by fellow moonwalker, Buzz Aldrin, following flag planting on the moon in July 1969. | Credit: NASA Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient ...

The ringed planet disappears behind the unilluminated part of the moon and then re-emerges from behind the illuminated side. TOP TELESCOPE PICK: Want to see the features of the moon up close? The ...

But that seminal event in vexillological history was not without a lot of debate, discussion and early worries that were run up the policy flagpole about "who owns the moon?" (Vexillology is the study ...