The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical environmental tests inside the ...

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...

Sixty years ago, a NASA astronaut’s antics on a spaceflight into low-Earth orbit sparked a national controversy in the U.S.

Before Neil Armstrong’s legendary first steps on the Moon in 1969, Nasa had to ensure that the lunar surface was well-mapped ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Soyuz that brought the first UK astronaut back to Earth and the only ...

Just four years after the first human traveled to space, a Soviet cosmonaut and later an American astronaut took next steps that would be vital to exploration: They walked in space. A spacewalk, when ...

Astronaut Edgar Dean Mitchell's experience in space led him to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which explores the science behind psychic and spiritual phenomena.

Sonoma’s Rusty Schweickart appears in “Apollo 1,” a new documentary film about the mission, and will participate in a panel ...

LONDON — Rejina Pyo has partnered with Oslo’s Munch Museum on an Edvard Munch-inspired capsule ahead of the “Edvard Munch Portraits” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, which opens on ...

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Only five countries have done it. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines ...

Since it launched aboard a SpaceX rocket on January 15, the spacecraft traveled more than ... the four-legged lander is 6.6 feet tall and 11.5 feet wide. The mission is part of NASA’s Commercial ...