European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...

There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a parabolic flight. In this exclusive mini-documentary, Space.com reporter ...

The US wants to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, five years ahead of Russia and China’s plans to do the same.

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

Work continues on designs for robots that can help assist the first human explorers on the moon in over half a century. One ...

As part of this move, Duffy asked NASA’s current lunar lander contractors, SpaceX and Blue Origin, for more nimble plans.

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

Many of my physiologic systems replicated somebody who's 20 or 30 years older than me.” Now there may be a solution: robot ...

Feeding astronauts sustainably is one of the biggest challenges in long-duration spaceflight. ESA’s solution looks like a ...

Models help scientists understand everything from the particles that make up the universe to massive superstructures of galaxies at the beginning of time. But sometimes they model more mundane, though ...

Blue Origin has launched its huge New Glenn rocket with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars. Thursday's liftoff from ...

The Psyche probe captures images of Earth and the Moon from over 180 million miles away as it travels to intercept an ...