No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.

Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...

After nine months aboard the International Space Station, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have finally landed back ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

The hatch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying the astronauts was sealed at 11:05 p.m. ET on Monday. In the nex ...

As tens of millions of people around the world watched two US astronauts safely return to earth, a key player in Australia’s ...

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore made splashdown on Earth on Tuesday after spending nine months in space. A SpaceX ...

Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...