Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He’s just one of four living moonwalkers and the oldest remaining astronaut still making trips around the sun.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. NASA’s giant Space Launch System rocket rolled out Saturday for a crewed lunar flyby mission, potentially ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s giant new moon rocket headed to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century. The out-and-back trip could ...

During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...

(WPTA) - On December 19, 1972, Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, concluding the Apollo program of crewed lunar landings. Apollo 17 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 7 ...

ABOVE VIDEO: In 2022, NASA released a video special to recognize the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 17 Moon Mission BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Apollo 17, the final NASA mission to send humans to the ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.

The morning sky brings a lovely scene as the crescent Moon joins bright Mercury in the southeast before sunrise. The pair stands 10° apart in the predawn sky, about 9° above the horizon by 6:45 A.M.

Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan may instead hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of melted water where life ...

Research on Apollo lunar samples provides evidence of how the Moon's surface evolves due to space weathering. The study focused on how the age of lunar regolith affects its physical and spectral ...

On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] With two astronauts on board, the lunar module Challenger touched ...