Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...

On a crisp January evening, as the International Space Station (ISS) streaked across the sky at 17,500 miles per hour, ...

A private spacecraft on a pretty badass mission has sent back footage of the far side of the Moon, on its way to land in the ...

Don Pettit has been at it again. Not content with dazzling earthlings with incredible photos captured from his current home aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA astronaut has now ...

The latest private lunar lander is a little closer to its destination. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost fired its engines early ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...

This week, see what makes loggerhead sea turtles “dance,” track a cosmic “ghost particle,” uncover an ancient basilica, and ...

The Schrödinger impact basin is located near the exploration zone for NASA's planned Artemis mission, intended to place astronauts on the moon for the first time since the Apollo landings of the 1970s ...

The Chinese Lunar Exploration Project, or the Chang’e Project for short, continues its series of robotic moon missions with plans next year to visit the far side of Earth’s only natural satellite.

It has been 54 years since NASA landed astronauts on the Moon for the third time. On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 14 stepped foot on the lunar surface, ...

An Apollo 16 astronaut has revealed how a photo of a family portrait ended up sitting on the moon for more than half a century. Astronaut Charles Duke, who served as a Lunar Module pilot, took off for ...