MOUNT PLEASANT — One of America’s most monumental space missions ended not in Houston, but on the deck of an aircraft carrier that would one day call Charleston Harbor home. When Apollo 8 fell back to ...

When NASA astronaut John Glenn prepared to orbit Earth in 1962 aboard Friendship 7, he asked for one thing before his mission: “Get the girl to check the numbers.” That “girl” was Katherine Johnson, a ...

A full moon is seen shining over NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher in the early hours of February 1, 2026. For 53 years, since the end of the Apollo ...

NASA is poised to send astronauts around the moon and back for the first time in more than 50 years. The space agency's Artemis II mission will take the crew further than humans ‍have ever ventured in ...

Cockeysville native and mission commander Reid Wiseman will lead NASA's Artemis II mission, traveling farther from Earth than humans have ever gone before.

NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials.

Old Apollo rocks are providing a fresh take on the moon's magnetic field. The lunar magnetic field is currently weak or even ...

Private space exploration company Blue Origin said its Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander arrived in Houston for testing. A lunar lander from the private space exploration company Blue Origin is in Houston ...

NASA's new administrator Jared Isaacman announced the shake-up in the flight lineup Friday, days after the space agency's new ...

Margaret Landis receives research funding from NASA. She is affiliated with the Planetary Society as a member for over 20 years. A rocket launch is always at the mercy of a variety of factors outside ...