As Artemis II prepares to carry astronauts around the moon using flight computers capable of billions of calculations per ...

When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space on April 12, 1961, the American space program rose to the occasion, and less than a month later, astronaut Alan Shepard became the ...

Researchers have been asking this question for more than 70 years, over a decade before people even made it to space. This ...

The earliest the rocket will launch is April 1.

The Museum of Flight will host Smithsonian curator Valerie Neal on Feb. 28 for a talk on U.S. women astronauts and her new ...

A spirit of history infused Carson City Mayor Lori Bagwell’s State of the City speech Wednesday as she threaded the city’s ...

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

On, NASA marked a major milestone in America’s early space program with the first successful launch of a Mercury-Atlas rocket. [...] ...

The only U.S. officer to lead PACOM and CENTCOM warns in his memoir that America chases short-term wins over strategy—risking ...

Cameron Smith spent most of his life chasing an idea that never left his imagination. From an early age, he was captivated by Space and Exploration, watching Moon Landing footage projected onto a ...

Alan Shepard’s playful experiment captured something equally important about exploration: the unmistakably human urge to improvise, joke, and celebrate achievement, even 3,80,000 kilometers from Earth ...

No longer. Vanya and his father, Sievert Rohwer, an influential feather researcher and curator emeritus at the Burke Museum at the University of Washington in Seattle, believe that the tiny filoplume ...