Athena, launched on February 26 from Florida atop a SpaceX rocket, carried 11 payloads and scientific instruments to a site approximately 160 kilometers from the lunar south pole.

She never flew in space again, but she did become a spokesperson for the Soviet Union, NASA said. Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, New Shepard is Blue Origin’s ...

Join us on an extraordinary journey into the deserts of western Kazakhstan as we uncover one of the Soviet Union's most ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to the lunar surface, when the ...

Former NASA administrators, others raise concerns about dismantling of DEI for space agency that worked hard to diversify ...

the Soviet Union, the United States, China, India and Japan, in that order. Now, the United States is working to make private lunar missions routine through NASA's $2.6 billion Commercial Lunar ...

John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the flight – and has made it available to share ...

At NASA, some web pages that touted the diversity ... The year was 1958. A year before, the Soviet Union launched a basketball-sized satellite into the skies above, sparking fear among American ...