On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn ...

On 1959, NASA introduced its very first astronaut class. This dashing group of young men is known as the Mercury 7. They were ...

The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey of the moon ...

New Jersey natives have been notable astronauts, including a moon walker and an original Mercury 7 member with "The Right ...

Lunar love knows no bounds. Now hurtling home from the moon, the Artemis II astronauts took a poignant page from Apollo 8 ...

Artemis II astronauts are preparing to set a new distance record from Earth on Monday as the crew races to slingshot the ...

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May, who has a doctorate in astrophysics, has been keenly following the first trip to the Moon in ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts swung around the moon in their Orion spacecraft on Monday, coming within 4,067 miles of the ...

Space missions can succeed or fail from the support they get from mission control. Here, we look at the changing shape of ...

Artemis II is NASA's first astronaut moonshot since Apollo 17 in 1972. It sets the stage for next year's Artemis III, which ...

Good morning, Portland! It’s been way too hot the past couple days. Luckily, it’ll cool down today, with forecasts predicting ...

The U.S. Navy doesn’t have a nuclear-powered carrier available, but the USS John P Murtha is well-suited to the recovery ...