The US was the last country to put humans on the moon's surface in 1972, but China is shaping up to edge out NASA to be the ...

On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. This ...

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Humans haven't been to the moon in decades, but NASA's Artemis II mission is about to change that, and perhaps even sooner ...

Apollo 13 suffered a catastrophic oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, forcing NASA to improvise one of the greatest ...

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Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges ...

Director Ron Howard's 1995 space rescue thriller lives on with a special anniversary edition for one week only starting Sept. 19.

James McDivitt, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died in his sleep last week in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said in a statement Monday. He was 93. McDivitt was ...

The Mercury program's name, chosen by Abe Silverstein in 1958, was inspired by the Roman messenger god, aligning with a pre-existing tradition of using Greco-Roman mythological names for space ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details ...

Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: "We are enormously ...