Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. With two astronauts on board, the lunar module Challenger ...

In the case of Deinococcus radiodurans, this principle plays out in dramatic fashion. The bacterium shrugs off massive doses of radiation because its proteins are shielded by manganese-based ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for NASA administrator, tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, said Wednesday that the ...

On his fourth flight, Don Pettit is once again sharing the art of astrophotography, capturing and posting pictures of Earth, ...

Researchers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) focused on three major areas of advanced research on Wednesday: ...

NASA astronauts aboard the space station captured stunning views of auroras, lunar crescents, red sprites, plant studies, ...

Delaware’s President Joe Biden was named Person of the Year in 2020, and George C. Marshall earned the honor in 1943 and 1947 ...

THE future lunar mining industry will be a trillion-dollar business – and Japan wants a slice of the big cheese. The Moon is ...

After the failure of Apollo 13 to land on the moon, NASA organized and completed four more Apollo missions, with eight men walking on the moon to bring the total to 12, all American astronauts.

ORLANDO, Florida —On Wednesday, Jared Isaacman made his first public appearance since his nomination earlier this month to become NASA's next administrator. Although his remarks were short on ...

During a press conference, agency director Bill Nelson announced that Artemis 2, the mission to orbit the Moon originally planned for September 2025, is delayed to April 2016, while Artemis 3 won't ...

This mission, Artemis I, was uncrewed. But NASA’s ultimate objective is to send humans to the Moon in 2026. So, NASA needed to make sure that any damage to the capsule– even its heat shield, which is ...