American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to step on the Moon on 1969. When the lunar module ...

What’s it like to travel to space? In this video, we take an in-depth look at the iconic Apollo 11 moon mission and what ...

The Apollo 11 mission marks one of humanity's most incredible achievements—landing on the Moon. But have you ever wondered ...

International Moon Day 2025 on July 20 honors lunar exploration and unity with the theme 'One Moon, One Vision, One Future.' ...

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

As a young NASA scientist during the Apollo era, William Borucki helped design the heat shield that brought Apollo 11 ...

Workers from within NASA will protest the space agency leadership's "preemptive over-compliance" of the White House's ...

The Moon’s albedo is 0.136, while the Earth’s is 0.434, making the Earth 3.2 times as reflective. That figure varies of course, depending on cloud and whether you’re facing mostly ocean or land.

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 ...

Chang'e 6's samples from the lunar far side contain a record of ancient volcanism, magnetism and a mantle depleted in important elements and water.

Apollo 8's successful mission paved the way for Apollo 11 to fulfill U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. NASA (The National Aeronautics and ...

Planet Earth and a large asteroid in space. Earth's second moon is leaving just before the holidays and will fly by again in January before heading out into space until 2055.