Tapes containing the original, high-quality transmission of the Apollo 11 moon landing were wiped after being quietly shelved in an unmarked storage area by Nasa. While other recordings of the ...

Old Apollo rocks are providing a fresh take on the moon's magnetic field. The lunar magnetic field is currently weak or even nonexistent, but cranked up to superstrength for short snippets of ...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) spent over 54 days in space during his career as a NASA astronaut. Having spent nearly two months orbiting Earth, he had some pointed thoughts about rap star Nicki Minaj’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) spent over 54 days in space during his career as a NASA astronaut. Having spent nearly two months ...

By Steve Nesius and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida ...

The crew will spend the next eight months conducting experiments to prepare for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

(NASA) – On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard ...

When you quiz your friends about the first flight of the Wright Brothers in 1903, a healthy percentage will be able to identify Kitty Hawk along a coastal strip of North Carolina as the locale where ...

A half-century ago, America's dreams were realized in space. The power of US innovation and spirit took the Apollo 11 crew to the moon and back. That mission was possible because of a diverse team of ...

The celebrated Earthrise picture was captured by Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve 1968. Story Humanity has changed an awful lot in the past 58 Years. The moon? Not so much. It was in 1968 that astronauts ...

(This story was updated to correct Buzz Aldrin’s current place of residence.) The wife of Buzz Aldrin, the second person to ever walk on the moon, has died at age 66. The 95-year-old NASA astronaut, ...

NASA has identified astronaut Mike Fincke as the Crew-11 member who had a medical event on the ISS, leading to the outpost's first medical evacuation.