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 ...

In honor of the 56th anniversary of the moon landing, which started Florida’s reputation as a rocket launch hub, here’s more about Earth’s natural satellite.

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, ...

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

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

Apollo 11 made history as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon, while Michael Collins ...

On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in Dayton, Tenn., ...

Learn about the iconic figures, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first humans on the Moon, during the historic Apollo 11 ...

This was Pope Leo's first visit to the observatory, founded in 1891 by Leo XIII. He later called Aldrin. “Together we shared ...