Nicki Minaj has turned one of the most documented achievements in human history into her latest culture‑war flashpoint, ...

The latest blueprint for a permanent outpost on the Moon is not just about planting more flags in gray dust. It sketches a tightly coupled system of rockets, reactors, data centers, and ...

“Not bad for an old man!” Capcom Bruce McCandless ribbed Alan Shepard, one of America's first 7 astronauts, moments after he ...

NASA has already set a date for a mission that will study how space radiation affects humans on the surface of the Moon.

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts returned from the moon in 1972, they visited NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to ...

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former NASA astronaut who flew four space shuttle missions, brushed off Nicki Minaj’s claim ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

Astronauts are flying to the moon for the first time since 1972, and scientists are preparing specialized space suits for the ...

Building on this discovery, Chinese scientists have developed a new lunar crater chronology model. The model allows for precise age estimates of unsampled lunar regions using only crater density ...

NASA is now targeting March to launch the Artemis II lunar mission after problems were discovered during a pre-launch test, according to a Feb. 3 news release from NASA.

Hydrogen leaks detected in a fueling rehearsal delayed a historic NASA mission. Artemis II is slated to carry four astronauts to the moon and beyond. The mission is first crewed lunar flight since ...