This is the story of a man who never went to space himself, but, had they not been at that console, the space program might ...

During a routine ground test in January 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were sealed inside their Apollo command module when a sudden fire erupted inside the oxygen-filled ...

In April 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was supposed to be another routine journey to the Moon. Instead, it became one of the ...

Smithsonian curator Carolyn Russo’s new book The Ascent of Rauschenberg explores the artist's fascination with flight ...

Scientists compare volcanic cones on Earth and Mars to explain how gas-rich magma forms scoria cones. Spacecraft observations ...

In their recent announcement, NASA has made official what pretty much anyone following the Artemis lunar program could have ...

Throughout February 2026, people at the Kennedy Space Center got to witness an exciting sight: NASA's behemoth Space Launch System rocket, SLS ...

Artemis II has been plagued by similar issues to those faced by its predecessor, leading NASA to shake up its plan to return ...

The announcement came last week, just after the agency's Artemis 2 rocket was rolled back to the hangar for repairs. What was ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts ...

Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most decorated astronauts and the ...

Artemis 3 is no longer bound for the Moon, while the space agency has officially added Artemis 4 to the program roster.