The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early Monday hours from Florida aboard a ...

The Apollo 8 mission was a monumental chapter in the space race. The NASA astronauts were the first to orbit the moon and return to earth. The mission was a historic milestone in man’s foray into the ...

On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a budget ...

As the world reflects on the 50 years since Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon, NASA has worked with a team of artisans and craftspeople to painstakingly restore the Johnson Space Centre ...

The team analyzed water in nine samples from the Apollo lunar mission, using a high-precision triple oxygen isotope technique. This method, developed by Dr. Morgan Nunn Martinez of the University ...

A British startup managed to shrink the Apollo Guidance Computer down to the size of an Apple Watch. Surely you’ve heard that your smartphone has more computing power than the computers that ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for ...

A NASA probe made history Christmas Eve after becoming the closest human-made object to the sun, a feat scientists say was as historic as the Apollo moon landing. The Parker Solar Probe zoomed ...

The strength of the lunar magnetic field may have shot up about 2.8 billion years ago, a Chinese study of samples from the far side of the moon suggests. The study, published online on Thursday in ...

NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968 became the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon and back but an image repeatedly portrayed on social media as showing a couple watching its launch is digitally ...

At a cost of about US$800 million, or $4.9 billion today, Project Azorian was more expensive than a manned Apollo Moon mission. In many senses it was a failure, but it did show what US ...

Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, on the third day of the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. Seen on the television monitor is a picture of ...