When astronauts journeyed to the moon, they inadvertently took along microscopic passengers. These microorganisms, or microbes, have raised intriguing questions about life’s resilience and the ...

Bian Zhigang, vice administrator of CNSA, outlined a number of recent successes, including the Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 moon ...

When NASA’s Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon in 1969 as the first humans, the length and extent of their extravehicular venture were mostly dictated by the ...

Alan Bean, a Navy test pilot and astronaut who walked on the moon and then spent two months aboard America's first space station before leaving NASA and becoming an accomplished artist, died Saturday.

In a preview of their flight, the crew of Artemis II, three Americans and a Canadian, struck a tone that veered away from the political currents of the moment.

CHICAGO -- James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

Canadian Moon astronaut Jeremy Hansen told Ars Technica that he's hoping to "take a very short nap on the pad." ...

The team includes the first woman and first person of color on a moon mission. NASA and the Canadian Space Agency announced Monday the four astronauts who will partake in the next Artemis mission and ...

HOUSTON — NASA has introduced its new class of astronaut candidates, some of whom may be among the first people to set foot ...