Despite facing a harrowing crisis, the Apollo 13 mission still managed to execute a scientific experiment. They intentionally ...

In 1965, North American Aviation studied an emergency mission for astronauts stranded near the Moon. A spare Saturn V would ...

This World Photography Day we look at some of the most iconic images captured by the US space agency, which have taught us ...

The Apollo 14 mission took a remarkable step in history by sending tree seeds into lunar orbit. After these seeds were brought back, the U.S. Forest Service managed to germinate them. During the ...

One of the concepts, a Venus flyby mission, would have been a bold undertaking indeed.

Five pocket mice traveled around the Moon on Apollo 17 in 1972. These animals carried radiation detectors implanted beneath ...

Year after year technology improves, and with the most powerful phones the public has ever had, it makes one wonder if Apollo ...

A piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that has been drifting through space since a January 2025 launch is believed to have collided with the Moon on Wednesday, striking the lunar su ...

Buzz Aldrin's felt-tip pen sold for nearly $860,000 at auction. Discover how the marker saved the Apollo 11 moon mission.

Human spaceflight has been racking up new milestones. But we’re still grappling with a fundamental question: Why go in the first place?

Neil Armstrong’s quote offers a powerful lesson on timing, dreams and opportunity, showing why feeling late to history should ...