Coordinated Lunar Time will help with precise space-travel calculations. But first, NASA has to figure out how to make it ...

The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured imagery of Martian moon Phobos transiting the Sun. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ...

Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...

The project involved simulating a flight beyond low-Earth orbit, including the effects of long-term isolation with restricted communication and expedition resources ...

The first four Artemis missions are using modified space shuttle main ... 103-ton interstage simulator component, measuring ...

As the second-largest state, Texas covers an extraordinary amount of the geographical area in the U.S., able to fit 15 of the smallest states together in its boundaries. Because of the size of ...

The mission will launch four astronauts around the moon ... space shuttle Columbia in 1986 while a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, also visited the event. The two appeared in flight ...

Many of us have visited the various displays of space shuttles around the US, and it's always a spectacular sight. The shuttle orbiter ... its uses as a technical simulator, this mockup was ...

Good thing we're going back to the moon! A paper on the team's research was published on Oct. 16 in the journal Nature Astronomy. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions ...

This may sound like an immense distance, but on a space scale, this is very close: The moon orbits us at a much greater distance of 238,900 miles, and the sun is about 93 million miles away.

In April 2024, Chinese space officials announced that the country was on track to put its astronauts on the Moon by 2030 ... scored a successful fifth test flight. But several challenging steps ...