The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum announced the opening of five new galleries on July 28 in Washington D.C.

When spacecraft land on the moon, their engines unleash huge clouds of dust and debris that can damage expensive equipment and threaten future lunar bases. As space agencies plan to establish a ...

A new study from the University of Florida analyzing moon rock samples from a Chinese lunar exploration mission is rewriting ...

PEERING at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 ...

Test your knowledge of iconic U.S. astronauts and their historic space missions. This quiz covers pioneering achievements, ...

Of course, it was the Saturn V heavy-lift rocket that took those astronauts through outer space to their destiny 56 years ago.  Many today are confused about how a nation that lacked the kind of ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the anniversary of the of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission, the first crewed moon landing.

The pontiff was accompanied by astronomers and students participating in the traditional summer school organized by the ...

What if you were told that within a single decade, humanity could go from barely flying beyond Earth's atmosphere to setting ...

In 2025, Pope Leo XIV visited the Vatican Observatory. He commemorated the 1969 moon landing. He observed the Sea of ...