Just before my final, 2001 shuttle mission to help build the International Space Station, I asked the NASA chief of human spaceflight when he thought we’d return to the moon. "Oh, probably not until ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. This month, ...

The comet is now racing away from the sun following a close flyby on Jan. 20.

China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular.

Artemis 2 could launch as early as this coming weekend. If it does, the 10-day mission will have to compete with the Olympics and Super Bowl for media attention. Reading time 3 minutes Update: ...

Four astronauts will fly around the moon, perhaps as early as next month, on NASA’s Artemis II mission. The three Americans and one Canadian will ride on the Space Launch System in its initial crewed ...

This time last year, the world was gripped by reports that an incoming, nearly 200-feet-wide asteroid had a tiny, tiny chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. The sigh of relief that we weren’t on course ...

The agency did not complete a practice countdown for a flight that would be the first to send people around the moon in more than 50 years. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on months of delays ...

Elon Musk announced his company SpaceX is shifting its focus from colonizing Mars to building a city on the moon. Musk stated that establishing a human presence on the moon is more feasible in the ...

It's the year 2012 in the newest 10-episode offering which kicks off March 27, 2026, and a heated rivalry is brewing between Earth and Mars that is quickly bubbling over into inte ...

The Earth eclipses the moon in this time-lapsed view from Firefly's Blue Ghost moon lander. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Annual governors' gathering with White House unraveling after Trump excludes ...

See footage Orion Spacecraft, moon and Earth shortly before its "outbound powered flyby burn". Orion was less than 2000 miles ...