The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

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

Ten years after launching a patchwork of stars from her place in space, Karen Nyberg is calling for quilters to create the ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...

On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The ...

Choosing billionaire Elon Musk to be what President-elect Donald Trump calls “our cost cutter” for the U.S. government, is not the first time an American president has empowered a business ...

The company specializes in land rovers and lunar landers, one of which is currently under construction in the museum. When ...

And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...

Astrogram banner TIME Recognizes the Advanced Composite Solar Sail SystemIn October, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System ...

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin departed the space station at 5:05 p.m. ET, undocking from the orbiting outpost in ...

The Nov. 16 celebration is also themed “Techs On Deck” to encourage youth toward choosing science and technology careers.

Meanwhile, space tourism, which is gathering pace, brings its own health issues. Traditionally, astronauts are handpicked ...