On Space Exploration Day, we commemorate one of the greatest achievements in the history of our Republic: landing Americansupon the surface of ...

NASA’s asteroid-hunting Psyche spacecraft recently needed a little gravitational assist from Mars to keep speeding towards ...

Fifty-seven years after Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder, the machinery that got him ...

Time travel back to 1969 as the exact same lunar phase appears in the July 20 sky as Earth saw when astronauts first stepped ...

The 12 NASA astronauts part of the Apollo program remain the only humans to reach the lunar surface.

The project is estimated to cost $20 billion and will be constructed in three phases between 2026 and 2032. Located at the moon's south pole, the base will allow exploration of a region thought to ...

How do you teach someone to look at the moon? Not glance at it, the way we all have on a clear night, but truly read it, the way a geologist reads a hillside. That was the challenge NASA set itself ...

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were backup crew for Apollo 8. Their next flight made them the first two men to step foot on the moon. The role of backup has traditionally set up astronauts to be named ...

Two astronauts with California ties are bound for the moon in 2028, after NASA unveiled the crew that will undertake a key mission in its effort to return humans to lunar orbit. On Tuesday, the space ...

They won’t be flying to the moon, but will be paving the way. They won’t be flying to the moon, but will be paving the way. NASA announced on Tuesday the four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, a ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. NASA has announced ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Artemis III crew poses for an official portrait (from ...