As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

This will be the second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’s space company and will include a key test of whether ...

Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...

As the Soviet Vostok 1 spaceflight began its descent back to Earth in April of 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin officially became the first human in space. However, in only a matter of seconds, his module ...

While preparing for the first human-crewed Vostok mission, 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin rose to the top of his class thanks to ...

The photograph taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 Aug. 23, 1966, of a crescent Earth above the lunar horizon, along with the digitized and enhanced version released Nov. 13, 2008, by the Lunar Orbiter Image ...

Far below the ice, the secrets of our planet's past hang on – and so do those of the aliens we may one day meet out near ...

HOUSTON—Astrobotic is progressing on multiple fronts in preparation for its Griffin-1 commercial lunar lander’s inaugural mission in 2026. Astrobotic was awarded a $199.5 million NASA Commercial Lunar ...

The long-range B-1 bombers can carry up to 75,000 pounds of guided and unguided munitions, the largest nonnuclear payload of any aircraft in the Air Force arsenal. By Eric Schmitt Reporting from ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...

Live updates from Sunday afternoon’s SpaceX Starlink 10-17 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. Editor's Note: The following ...