A long-lost piece of an Apollo rocket has returned to Earth orbit after decades of racing around the sun, the first time our planet has captured an object from solar orbit, astronomers said Friday ...

Lightning struck Apollo 12's rocket, a Saturn V, twice during the launch. While the astronauts had some trouble with the displays on board after the lightning strikes, ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames Research ...

There was a lot we didn’t get to see when Apollo 12 blasted 50 years ago today on humans’ second trip to the moon’s surface. First was the liftoff. When astronauts Pete Conrad, Ri… ...

Sure enough, the ionized exhaust plume turned the Saturn V rocket into an enormous lighting rod. Apollo 12 was struck by lighting 36.5 seconds after liftoff and then again 15.5 seconds after that ...

Rocket Power. The new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it’s mightier, packing 8.8 million pounds (4 ...

NASA expected 15,000 to jam the launch site, with thousands more lining the beaches and roads outside the gates, to witness NASA’s long-awaited sequel to Project Apollo, when 12 astronauts ...

The Saturn V rocket with Apollo 12's spacecraft aboard (left) on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in 1969. NASA's new moon rocket for the Artemis program with the Orion spacecraft on top ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames ...