On September 14, 1959, the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the Moon. The mission, ...

On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system.

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age ...

From the first lunar landing in 1969 to the final Apollo mission ... Kennedy’s famous 1961 speech declaring the goal of landing a man on the Moon helped push NASA to work harder than ever. In only ...

As the world mourns the loss of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, take a moment to revisit the iconic Apollo 11 landing.

Both the United States and China are working to put their astronauts on the moon in the next few years, with NASA's acting ...