“It was very contested at the time, about whether or not the U.S. should raise a flag on the moon,” Muir-Harmony says. The United Nations’ Outer Space Treaty of 1967 forbade countries from ...

That doesn't mean you always should. China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country's red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part of the vehicle blasted off ...

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 ...