These NASA missions were not only a steppingstone to the Moon, but influenced many aspects of the way humans still travel ...

This evening, the roughly half-illuminated face of the Moon hangs in Gemini, high in the south an hour after sunset. First Quarter Moon occurs at 10:15 P.M. EDT. The two brightest stars in Gemini ...

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The international four-person crew returns after nearly four days in space and observing Earth’s poles from orbit for the first time.

Gitanjali Rao was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Stephen Hawking Medal Junior, an award created to inspire young ...

The molecules, while not a direct sign of life, still signal the existence of complex chemistry on the Red Planet.

Spectrum lifted off from Norway’s picturesque Andøya Spaceport and cleared the launch pad. But after about 30 seconds, the ...

As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet terrifying weapons in Nazi Germany’s armamentarium: the V-2 rocket.

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

As mentioned, most star trail images are made by combining multiple 30-second exposures. This results in hundreds of images ...