The U.S. Space & Rocket Center has designated 2026 as "The Year of the Explorer," featuring the legacy of the Mercury ...

The Artemis II mission will return humans to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in more than half a century.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

From the ‘year of the Moon’ to discovering ‘the history of the entire solar system,’ here is what to look out for. View on ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

May 5 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first American to go into space. On May 5, 1961, Shepard's Freedom ...

Glenn became first American to orbit Earth Feb. 20, 1962. Feb. 16, 2012 — -- The world was such a scary place in 1962 that there were actually Americans who volunteered to leave it. The Cold War ...

Scott Carpenter, one of two remaining astronauts from NASA’s Mercury program and the second American to orbit the earth, died Wednesday at the age of 88. His family did not specify a cause of death, ...