A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches into space. (Jorge Villalba/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Moon is constantly accosted by ...

Blue Origin’s Endurance lander is the first test flight of the company’s Blue Moon Mark 1 design, a 26-foot-tall (8-meter) vehicle intended to deliver cargo and experiments to the lunar surface. Blue ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover detected more than 20 complex organic molecules in 3.5-billion-year-old clay-bearing rock inside Gale ...

SPACE CENTER, Houston — Two Americans landed on the moon and explored its surface for some two hours Sunday, planting the ...

As the Artemis II astronauts prepare for separate appearances hosted by President Donald Trump and Jimmy Fallon, revisit the ...

ASTRONAUTS from the Apollo 17 mission spotted bright particles over the moon that reminded them of fireworks, according to ...

On April 18, 2014, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, also known as LADEE, ended its mission by crashing into the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] LADEE had ...

Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that revealed complex carbon ...

NASA is accelerating development of compact nuclear reactors designed to operate on the Moon, aiming to solve one of the most persistent barriers to long-term lunar exploration: reliable energy during ...

A European concept proposes using a laser beam to power a rover deep inside the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions. The idea targets areas believed to contain water ice, one of the most sought-after ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English ...