This is a vintage oversize photograph from July 1969 of Earth taken by the Apollo 11 crew during the Apollo 11 trans-lunar coast. NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is an ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission when astronauts could admire their home planet as a small island of life hanging in the dark ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

April 11th has been a day of remarkable events throughout history, ranging from groundbreaking scientific achievements to ...

A massive asteroid named 2023 KU, roughly the size of a 35-story building, is set to fly past Earth at an alarming speed of ...

It was essential for Project Apollo, when the Lunar Module, (LM ... Soon after that, Gemini 11 in September 1966 achieved an Agena-D docking on its first orbit, 85 minutes after launch, simulating an ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Space-ng optical navigation software provides terrain relative navigation, hazard detection, and attitude determination from lunar orbit to the ...

The Space Force teamed up with multiple other aerospace companies, including Orbit Fab, Astroscale, and Northrop Grumman, to create a pair of devices (named Tetra-5 and Tetra-6) that were designed ...

Unlike previous missions, Earth's polar regions have remained unseen by astronauts, including those aboard the ISS and Apollo missions ... of the human body in orbit and groundbreaking medical ...

It was a practice for Artemis II, during which Love will be the lead CapCom communicating with the crew as they head to the moon, orbit it and return to Earth ... the site near the moon’s equator ...