Senator with 54 days in space experience laughs off rapper's lunar landing doubts, references Soviet Union's historic ...

On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot ...

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...

Actor Tom Hanks talks about how his fascination with space began as a child and what humans will accomplish by returning to ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts returned from the moon in 1972, they visited NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to thank staff for their contributions to the mission, saying "we stood on the ...

SpaceX launched 26 missions from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A in 2025, including four human spaceflight missions. That era is coming to an end. A massive crane was put in place this week ...

NASA approves iPhones for Artemis II lunar mission, replacing decade-old cameras with consumer smartphones for first time since 1972.

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former NASA astronaut who flew four space shuttle missions, brushed off Nicki Minaj’s claim ...

Apollo 14, the first lunar space mission after the crisis of Apollo 13, successfully landed on the Moon on Feb. 5, 1971.

Derry native Alan Shepard wasn't the first person to walk on the moon, but he was the first to hit a golf ball while up there ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will award its 2026 Michael Collins Trophy to Farouk El-Baz for Lifetime ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.