Neil Armstrong is perhaps best known for saying 12 words on July 20, 1969: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap ...

An astronaut has recalled the horrifying moment he nearly drowned in space when water leaked into his helmet during a ...

A new book examines that questions and tells the story of the friendship between the famed Apollo astronaut and his Houston ...

Three men, one of which was reportedly wearing a dinosaur costume, tried to steal a life-size astronaut statue from Memorial ...

A Rolex watch that went to the Moon is up for auction. Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell strapped the timepiece to his right ...

For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include the ...

Scientists are studying whether future astronauts on deep-space journeys could transform compounds in asteroids into food.

Continuing the year-long celebration of its Bicentennial, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hosted events last weekend ...

A Rolex watch that went to the Moon is up for auction. Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell strapped the timepiece to his right ...

Chinese astronaut conduct a spherical flame experiment during an orbit to ground space lecture using a match and a candle. Note: Video is in Mandarin - No translation available. Credit: China Central ...

Two woman astronauts had to stay behind to make space for their stranded Starliner colleagues, Butch Wilmore and Suni ...

The Martian, the space epic starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain and directed by Ridley Scott, has been a mainstay in the ...