The asteroid space scientists feared would hit Earth may now smash into the Moon instead. Space rock 2024 YR4 was originally ...

The widow of the sixth man to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission has revealed what the astronaut told her about ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

NASA’s Mariner 10 space probe was the first spacecraft to complete a flyby of Mercury. The first of its three encounters with the planet took place on this day in ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

The squeeze on higher education by President Trump’s administration underscores how much American colleges depend on the ...

How do space programs get their names? Elizabeth Coen | Monterey, California NASA and others have long sought symbolic names ...

He demonstrated the tricky task of sipping from a special mug in microgravity on the International Space Station.

Until recently, space exploration has been funded almost exclusively by national governments, with NASA the prime example. In the early 20th century, the same was true of aeronautics. Government ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or less and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

The China National Space Administration was founded more than 25 years ago and is overseeing an ambitious programme which includes deep space exploration, a manned space station, and cutting-edge ...