CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.

I was six years old when Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969. The static-crackled words he spoke from the moon of his single step for man being a leap for mankind shaped ...

Astronauts won't be walking on the moon until ... and components for rocket fuel. Unlike the Apollo flights, these aren’t just NASA missions that are getting us back to the moon.

Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after launch on Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven astronauts on board: Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair (the second black American to reach ...

28, 1986, the three Apollo 1 astronauts that died in a fire on the launch pad during a test Jan. 27, 1967 and eight others who paid the ultimate price in their pursuit of America’s space program.

British astronaut Tim Peake is blasting off on a tour of the country and will touch down in Basingstoke in September. His tour, called Astronauts: The Quest To Explore Space, will see him share ...

NASA's fallen astronauts: a photo memorial — New NASA video honors fallen astronauts of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia — Space shuttle Columbia: NASA's first shuttle in space NASA holds its ...