The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

Surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our planet ... a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia slammed into the proto-Earth. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

but Johnson does not expect any issues on Earth. He does wonder what would happen if the impact kicks off meteroids that could impact moon missions, space craft and objects on the moon's surface.

Illustration of a stage in the formation of the Earth-moon system. The Earth had recently ... And the crusts were scattered far into space. What happened next is a little hard to follow and ...

United States astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore went to space on board the Boeing ... the average distance to Mars from Earth is a staggering 225 million ...

returned to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Tuesday, finally closing out a repeatedly extended 286-day odyssey in space. They shared the ride home with two outgoing space station ...

Building such facilities off Earth ... moon’s surface. There, the spacecraft would have a constant view of Earth to allow continuous data access. Other companies have similar aspirations. The US ...

Accurate and reliable navigation will be vital for future astronauts as they travel across the moon, but traditional GPS tools aren’t much good when you’re around 225,000 miles from Earth.

Image: Butch Wilmore returns to Earth Pic: NASA During their long wait in space, the two US Navy veterans completed spacewalks, experiments and even helped sort out the plumbing onboard the ISS.

For any space mission beyond low-Earth orbit, for example to the moon or Mars, the astronauts would be subjected to even higher doses of radiation, significantly increasing these risks to their ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has successfully touched down on the moon, in a pivotal moment for private space travel ... corner of the moon's Earth-facing side. It has on board a vacuum ...