The Cold War space race began with the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. The United States responded with the launch of Explorer 1, which discovered the Van Allen ...

A one-of-a-kind item in the history of space exploration goes on the auction block today (July 18) at Christie's in New York City. The timeline book from Apollo 11's Eagle lunar module, annotated by ...

On Sunday, July 20, 1969, the first thing ever written by a human while on a celestial body that wasn't our own planet Earth was jotted onto a page. That page was within a book known as "The Timeline ...

Fifty years after humans first stepped foot on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, NASA is celebrating the historic launch of the Saturn V rocket. The mission had one objective: to perform a crewed ...

The United States made history 50 years ago when two American astronauts became the first humans in history to walk on the moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped foot on the lunar ...

Check out this fun timeline documenting all of NASA’s Apollo missions, from 1966 to 1972. As part of the viral marketing for the new space-horror movie Apollo 18, they’ve put together an awesome ...

Forty-eight years ago, NASA achieved its "successful failure," saving the lives of three American astronauts who almost died on their way to the moon. The eyes of the entire nation were upon the ...