Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. Facts July 20, 1969 – [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes the ...

As the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum turns 50, an expansive exhibition celebrates how art has coincided with space ...

Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames Research ...

NASA is racing to build a permanent settlement near the lunar south pole. The space agency claims its Moon base will cover “hundreds of square miles,” meaning mobility will be key. Enter Pegasus, one ...

Some were dressed as astronauts; others wore T-shirts reading “Occupy Mars,” a slogan made popular by SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk. On the giant video screens that cover the curved facade of the ...

NASA's Artemis III astronauts plan to carry out rendezvous and docking procedures with commercial moon landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Isaac Asimov famously declared that he didn’t believe in “flying saucers.” Asimov countered that he believed in “evidence” and “observation.” “I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, ...

A historic lunar module simulator in the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale played a role Wednesday in the next phase of space exploration that eventually could take humankind to Mars and beyond.

JACKSON, MI - They were days when children looked up at the sky and dreamed of going to the moon. They were days when the astronauts who had gone there were celebrated as explorers and heroes. Jackson ...

The crew of Apollo 12 claimed they saw "streaks of lights"while far from Earth and trying to fall asleep, though scientists later ruled the flashes were from within their eyes. A medical debrief ...