Artemis II echoes the Apollo-era missions that paved the way for the first moon landing — and sets the stage for what comes ...

Jan. 31 marks the day Ham, a chimpanzee, was launched into sub-orbital space in a Mercury capsule aboard a Redstone rocket to become the first great ape in space.

While the world holds its collective breath and awaits humanity's return to the moon after more than a half-century for a ...

JUDITH KALAORA: "I WAS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO KNEW HER TO SAY, I REMEMBER WHEN SHE SAID THAT, OR THAT LITTLE THING THAT SHE ...

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid to travel into space, marking a critical milestone in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has delayed astronauts' upcoming trip to the moon because of near-freezing temperatures expected at the launch site. The first Artemis moonshot with a crew is now targeted ...

NASA confirms galaxy MoM-z14 observed by the James Webb Space Telescope formed 280 million years after the Big Bang using spectroscopic measurements.

Observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory are providing fresh evidence that the ...

The four suits were located in the the suit-up room of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The photo was taken on Jan. 17, 2026.

On Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. All seven crew members on board were killed ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...