THE football-sized asteroid that scientists initially feared could strike Earth is now on course to potentially crash into the Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once dubbed a “city killer”, has an ...

Sixty years ago, a NASA astronaut’s antics on a spaceflight into low-Earth orbit sparked a national controversy in the U.S.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On March 31, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. This small ...

On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...

Astronaut John W. Young, the pilot for Gemini III, checks over his helmet prior to flight.

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is constructed to find out the different aspects of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, to ...

The first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini III, lifted off of Launch Pad 19 in Cape Canaveral on March 23, 1965. [...] ...