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 and Earth analog sites provide evidence of similar eruptive processes.

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 ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott ...

Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most decorated astronauts and the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13. Lovell rephrased a ...

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

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced significant changes to the agency's Artemis program, which aims to land on the moon in 2028.

NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting to add in an additional crewed test flight before attempting to land.