With NASA’s first launch toward the moon in five decades potentially only a few months away, the space agency has just ...

The crucial and groundbreaking Gemini missions came after the swaggering heroics of the Mercury flights, immortalized in book ...

Marshall Space Flight Center is playing a critical role in keeping the first manned moon mission in 50 years on target.

Starfish Space and Impulse Space say they've pulled off an in-space satellite rendezvou using Impulse's spacecraft and ...

Stewart also discusses her directorial debut 'The Chronology of Water,' Imogen Poots’ performance, and her future directing ...

Before me is an expansive, arid landscape—a realm of valleys, chasms, and crevasses, of steep cliffs and dusty soil, framed by distant mountains. It might as well be on the moon itself, save for the ...

The first Kitten Space Agency pre-alpha has arrived, and you can try it for free right now. Its name is no coincidence; it's a bold play from Dean Hall, founder of developer RocketWerkz and the ...

Things were not going well for Eugene Cernan, who was outside his ship on a spacewalk — just the second time an American astronaut had ever made such a trip. The vagaries of microgravity and Newton’s ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.

More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the moon, China is working steadily toward landing its astronauts on the lunar surface. Among legislators and senior figures in the US space ...

With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the ...

It's already a great month for skygazers, with a trio of meteor showers and the return of the northern hemisphere winter constellations. Tonight, it also features the second of four supermoons in a ...