Did you know that the U.S. government worked with one major food brand to craft a snack for outer space explorers? This ...

No human has ever really left Earth’s atmosphere. It sounds absolutely ridiculous when you first hear about it. After all, ...

Countless shadowed craters line the terminator all the way down to the moon's southern pole, while the 54-mile-wide (87 km) ...

Four-time spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson had a good excuse for not showing up Saturday for her own induction ceremony to ...

Richard Bergstresser, an Army veteran and former first selectman in Greenwich, died on his 91st birthday, according to his ...

Dr. Bernard Harris and Dr. Peggy Whitson were officially inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday at the ...

Golf balls, a word from the queen, and an X-rated drawing by Andy Warhol are just some of the items left behind by astronauts ...

Aldrin, the celebrated American astronaut, engineer, and retired fighter pilot, boasts a net worth of $12 million.

For as long as humans have gazed skyward, the moon has been a focus of fascination. We could always see our cosmic partner’s mottled, cratered face by eye. Later, telescopes sharpened our views ...

Jeff Hessel worked at Cape Canaveral in the heyday of the U.S. space program. He now lectures about the experience to groups ...