NASA is celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission which touched down on the Moon on April 21. Besides being ...

One of them was Armalcolite, which was named after the three astronauts of Apollo 11. It wasn’t until May 1961 that Kennedy decided that a moon mission gave the U.S. enough time to catch up to ...

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

As President Donald Trump’s pick to be NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman is going to have to navigate Washington politics, ...

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.

NASA wants to come up with a way to transform 96 sacks of feces, urine and vomit ditched by Apollo 11 astronauts in1969.

A fascinating new study has revealed that there could in fact be life on the Moon. Although not yet peer-reviewed, the new ...

NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge, offering a $3 million prize, seeks innovative solutions to transform the 96 bags of human waste ...

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 ...

Scientists have long noted differences between the lunar near side and far side. While the near side periodically passes ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on December 4, 1965. According to NASA, the flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes ...

As the commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong left his Speedmaster ... where Armstrong's flown-to-the-moon chronograph is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington ...