The Apollo 11 mission included the consumption of the first meal on the Moon, consisting of bacon, peaches, cookies, a fruit drink, and coffee. NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), a massive ...

NASA entered a new chapter in its prestigious history of space exploration when the shuttle was retired in 2011 after 30 years. The space agency relied on Russia to get U.S. cargo and astronauts to ...

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Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world has been thrown into question after reviewing the only mission to venture ...

An asteroid that may hold the key to life is getting its first visitor in billions of years. Here are five tidbits about Bennu, chosen for NASA's first such mission from more than 500,000 known ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled new details into the farthest star ever detected, Earendel, situated in the very distant universe. The Hubble Space Telescope initially observed the star ...