On Oct. 29, 1998, NASA astronaut John H. Glenn made history again when he returned to space aboard space shuttle Discovery’s ...

ASTRONAUTS can lose fingernails during spacewalks due to a condition called onycholysis that separtes fingernails from their ...

NASA will train an Indian astronaut for a voyage to the International Space Station as early as next year, NASA Administrator ...

Three astronauts have returned to Earth after six months aboard China's orbiting space station NASA is preparing for its next mission: flying through the atmosphere of one of Saturn's moons, with ...

Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.

In a remote area of the Sahara desert sits a 3,000-foot deep volcanic pit that looks like a ghoulish skull when viewed by space, NASA photos show. The NASA Earth Observatory said last week an ...

NASA Capt. Victor Glover, pilot of the upcoming Artemis II space shuttle mission, returned to his beginnings Friday, Nov. 17, ...

Frank Borman didn't give a damn about the moon. The legendary NASA astronaut, a vital member of the agency's Apollo program, said in his later years that he wasn’t in it for the grandeur of ...

NASA's planned return to the moon is unlikely to happen in 2025 as planned because of delays and challenges in building the lunar lander and space ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has provided new panoramic images of Mars and its moon Phobos, offering fresh insights into the ...

SpaceX rockets are ripping brightly colored holes in the Earth's ionosphere. These phenomena have been studied for over 40 ...

Helping to inject enthusiastic support for the Italian space industry, distinguished European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano recently appeared as the keynote speaker at the "Space It ...