Before America could send astronauts into space, one test rocket barely cleared the pad—rising just four inches before failing in front of a skeptical world. This video tells the story of ...

Following the highest ever cocktail party, barber shop and sushi restaurant, the crew of the International Space Station (ISS ...

Discover NASA’s full form, its missions, workforce, achievements, and how the agency advances space exploration, science, ...

Astronauts will enjoy traditional Thanksgiving dishes with a few treats included by food scientists back on the groud.

In zero gravity, nothing falls—so NASA redesigned the entire concept of plumbing. Modern space toilets use airflow, not gravity, to pull waste away, with astronauts anchoring themselves using ...

"The first 20 women or so ... couldn't even imagine the reality or the possibility of becoming an astronaut except as they had read about it in science fiction." ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. Ahead of Glenn's spaceflight, Panorama was in Cocoa Beach, to gauge the ...

A NASA rover has recorded evidence of lightning on Mars for the first time, its microphone picking up the sounds of tiny ...

A newly upgraded version of SpaceX’s Starship rocket suffered an apparent failure during a ground test early Friday in South ...

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...

On Nov. 2, 2000, the crew of NASA’s Expedition 1 opened the hatch to the International Space Station, which was the beginning ...

Understanding the moon’s seismic activity is critical to the success or failure of future lunar missions. Lunar seismic ...