The director of software engineering at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, Hamilton was a pioneer of computer science in a transformative era, and on a transformative mission, in human history. "The ...

Space exploration company Lunar Outpost will be working with the university to aid NASA as it heads to the Lunar South Pole, the proposed landing site for the crewed Artemis III mission scheduled for ...

Cutting-edge MIT payloads will soon hitch a ride to the Moon’s South Pole. The Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission, carrying MIT ...

(CBS) - Imagine the moment as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were descending toward the moon, a few minutes away from landing in the Sea of Tranquility. Civilization's most historic event was within ...

This is the 12th in an exclusive series of 50 articles, one published each day until July 20, exploring the 50th anniversary of the first-ever Moon landing. You can check out 50 Days to the Moon here ...

Apollo 14 launched under significant pressure to restore NASA's prestige and secure future funding, following the near-disaster of Apollo 13, with Commander Alan Shepard leading the mission amidst ...

Scientists at MIT have digitally manipulated video and audio to create a creepy deepfake of President Nixon “delivering” a speech that would have been used in the event of an Apollo 11 disaster.

This is the 13th in an exclusive series of 50 articles, one published each day until July 20, exploring the 50th anniversary of the first-ever Moon landing. You can check out 50 Days to the Moon here ...

For decades, scientists have been puzzled by a strange phenomenon: while lunar rocks show evidence of strong magnetism, the moon itself has no active magnetic field today. Now, researchers at MIT may ...