"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space environment is entirely hostile to human existence. Precision-engineered ...

The 'forgotten astronaut' of the 1969 moon landing shared the bizarre way they were treated upon returning to Earth following ...

Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...

Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...

U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, the Mission commander, who has a doctorate in biochemistry, is taking the necklace that she ...

The Apollo program was a defining moment in human history. What started as a challenge from JFK turned into a daring mission that put the first humans on the Moon. But what did it really take to get ...

Aldrin is still planting flags 56 years after he did so on the moon, only now it is in a commercial asking "Can you text me ...

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Unlike the Apollo flights, these aren’t just NASA missions that are getting us back to the moon. Get comfortable with the acronym CLPS, which stands for Commercial Lunar Payload Services.