The Space Launch System rocket that will launch humans back to the moon for the first time since 1972 began its journey to ...

Skywatchers will get a rare double feature in May, with two full moons lighting up the night sky — beginning with the “flower ...

May will bring an unusual treat for skywatchers: two full moons in a single calendar month, a relatively rare occurrence that ...

On April 26, 1986, a fire and explosion at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear reactor north of Kiev, Ukraine, resulted in ...

The Artemis II astronauts, all in their 40s or 50s, flew a little more than 4,000 miles from the Moon, higher above the ...

It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon’s surface to begin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA astronaut Christina Koch received a very warm welcome from her pet dog Sadie as she arrived home after completing the Artemis ...

The Artemis II astronauts concluded their record-breaking 10-day journey on Friday with a smooth splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight around the moon in ...

Io is unlike anything else in the solar system. Its surface is constantly reshaped by extreme volcanic activity driven by powerful gravitational forces. Despite its frozen environment, it remains one ...

The data pipeline from NASA’s Artemis II mission opened to full blast a few hours after looping behind the far side of the Moon on Monday night, when the Orion spacecraft established a laser ...

For all its ancient, familiar features, the Moon is still changing—and sometimes in dramatic ways. Scientists recently identified a fresh 22-meter-wide crater by comparing orbital images taken years ...

The big picture: When the Artemis crew set off for the Moon last week, many observers likely anticipated the eventual transmission of new, high-resolution images of the natural satellite's far side.