The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site preserves the home and workshop of the 17th president, proving that even small Tennessee towns can produce leaders who reach the highest office in the land.

It has been more than 50 years since a crew splashed down on Earth after flying to the moon. Now NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense are preparing to do that again in support of the space ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

Tom Hanks is taking people on a virtual ride to the moon. At Space Center Houston, visitors can experience an immersive 270-degree multi-screen view of the Apollo missions. "The Moonwalkers ...

Saturday finds the moon in a waxing gibbous phase ... actually appear about half their predicted distance apart. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events ...

The next phase of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services moon exploration program began on Jan. 15, with the launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost. It continued with the launch of the Intuitive Machines ...

A crew has entered the International Space Station (ISS) to replace the astronauts who were stranded there for nine months. A SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts on Sunday on a mission to ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison ...

Kiichiro Sato/Associated Press Supported by By Aimee Ortiz From Thursday night into Friday morning, the Earth’s shadow gradually overtook the moon’s ... world with our space and astronomy ...

Now they’ll undergo a battery of tests to find out how the longer-than-expected space stay has impacted their health. The pair left on June 5 for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission to ...

During a SpaceX flight test of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket and spacecraft system, NASA's Don Pettit snapped photos from the International Space Station of the ship blowing up.

March 25, 2025 • In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the ...