Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic ...

July 20th is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo program and the new Artemis program to return to the lunar surface.

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.

NASA has a long history of spending big on bold ideas, only to see some of them stall, crash, or get quietly shelved. The ...

"Apollo 13" stars Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon as three NASA astronauts who must navigate safely back to Earth after their spacecraft encounters troubles on the way to the moon. To ...

Illustration of a SpaceX Starship on the moon. Credit: SpaceX On March 7, 1967, a Red Bank, New Jersey, resident named F.C. Stetter sat down at their typewriter and wrote a letter to Sen. Clinton P.

They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The loss of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided the ...

On Dec. 5, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson held a press conference at the space agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and told the world that Project Artemis was yet again being delayed. The delay ...

When the Apollo astronauts traveled beyond the atmosphere and to the moon in the 1960s and '70s, they carried Hasselblad cameras to document the NASA missions. Apollo 16 Hasselblad image, with ...