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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are you maybe a little too young to remember all the Apollo missions leading up to this summer’s cinéma-vérité film Apollo 18? If so, you’ll definitely want to check out the recently launched ...

Next week, NASA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the most important missions in history - Apollo 11. The mission saw humans step foot on the moon for the first time, having completed the ...