Lara Waldrop, professor in Engineering, will lead the first National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission by a ...

On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it ...

Ron Howard and his crew — including Tom Hanks, Brian Grazer, Ed Harris, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Clint ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

Three missions aimed at observing space weather are set to launch Sept. 23 from Florida. Here's what to know about NASA's ...

The 'Moonwalkers' exhibit in Boston has been extended due to popularity. How to go if you haven't seen it yet.

Liftoff of the IMAP missions on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for September 23, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

China’s strategic ambition is reminiscent of the pioneering spirit of the Apollo missions that won the Space Race for the U.S ...

NASA is preparing to launch a new observatory that will help scientists better understand space weather and the protective ...

The moon is appearing smaller and smaller every night, a nod to the name of the current phase in the lunar cycle, Waning ...

Do we know what space actually smells like? And what about other planets, moons, and celestial bodies? Here's what the ...

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight ...