In 1962, President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to do something no nation had ever done before: land a man on ...

Decades ago, there was an Apollo Generation of children who came of age during the era of the lunar landing. NASA hopes to ...

Fresh takes on Apollo’s famous “Earthrise” and “Blue Marble” images showed off our planet’s beauty just weeks before Earth ...

Fifty-eight years ago, Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders captured " Earthrise ," which has become one of the most famous ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes ...

Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their ...

White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico played a crucial role in the US space program, from early rocket tests to the moon ...

Four American astronauts have boldly gone where no man has gone before ... and it's just the beginning ...

This Earth Day, we reflect on our home planet and look at Earth from space through history.

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This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission ...