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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

When Apollo 11 touched down in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, it was more than a triumph of the human spirit, it was also the story of a cybernetic wonder called the Apollo Guidance Computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

On December 21, 1968, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders took off aboard Apollo 8 to become the first humans to orbit the moon. The Apollo project was a nationwide effort made up of more than ...

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 ...