On Jan. 22, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 5, marking the first time the Apollo Lunar Module flew in space and a critical step toward landing astronauts on the Moon.

The ISS has been continuously occupied in low Earth orbit since November 2000. That this was the first medical evacuation ever needed speaks not only to the training of NASA's and other space agencies ...

Discover the Apollo Lunar Module (LM), the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the moon's surface. This video provides ...

The Artemis II mission is a test flight that will send four astronauts on a more than 600,000-mile, 10-day journey around the ...

Find out what happened to NASA’s Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, a.k.a. the real women behind ‘Hidden ...

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon.

On the other were two more figures in space suits, with the tiniest Stars and Stripes planted in the lunar soil. Cruz ...

Scheduled to launch in early 2026, NASA's Artemis 2 is part of the bold 21st-century vision for returning astronauts to the ...

In 1841, Swiss physicist Jean-Daniel Colladon at the University of Geneva demonstrated to his students that light could be guided through total internal reflection. This phenomenon occurs when a ray ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar wind and our planet's magnetic field, upending a 20-year-old theory based ...

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...