HOUSTON -- To the moon and beyond. For decades, that has been the goal of NASA and its world-famous space crews. One integral part of that mission has been Black astronauts, who are chronicled in ...

May 2, 2025 was National Space Day, an occasion to reflect on the history of the American spaceflight program for all its triumphs and tragedies, as well as to pause and consider all of the ...

"Fiddler on the Moon: Judaism in Space" investigates how the religion would adapt to spaceflight and environments where ...

This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space. The ...

When I was four, my parents took me to a planetarium for the first time. It was a huge one, in Chicago; it seemed as big as space itself. I enjoyed many more visits to planetariums over the years, but ...

The documentary, narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Hanks, made its Johnson Space Center debut last night, where it is projected on a screen and the floor and walls—letting visitors walk on the ...

Narrated by Alec Baldwin (Sean Pertwee in UK edition) and produced by National Geographic Channel Journey to the Edge of Universe is a tale of an imaginary journey from Earth to the edge of the ...

Sci-fi geeks have long worshipped an obscure TV show about a futuristic Moonbase Alpha and its spacecraft fleet of Eagles. Now, about a half-century in, those “Space: 1999” superfans are about to get ...

The International Space Station is turning 25 this month. Twenty-five years of people from all over the world living together and working together in space. At the same time, it is starting to wrap up ...