In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its positive effects eventually led to the International Space Station (ISS).At ...

The awkward moment left O'Brien at a loss for words, and the clip has since gone viral, amassing millions of views online.

The night sky is home to many celestial features named after creatures from Earth’s oceans. Among the stars, you’ll find ...

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

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Only 12 astronauts have walked on the moon. Discover who they are, which Apollo missions took them there, and when humans ...

China sees the space race as a national priority, in the commercial, civilian and military world, the US government employee ...

NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land and walk on the ...

BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – On July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. Eastern Time, the Apollo 11 crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins launched toward the Moon. The astronauts were not the ...

Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, was a private person. Therefore, when he spoke, it commanded attention. Here he ...

Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA disapproved.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...