As the historic lunar flyby comes to a close, space companies and nations around the world are also shooting for the moon.

The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in ...

Chinese taikonaut over the Tianhe main module - Gremlin/Getty Images The familiar silhouette of the International Space Station (ISS) is the first thing we think of when it comes to a habitat in space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The European Space Agency announced Thursday it has re-established communication with a spacecraft that is part of its Proba-3 ...

Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high.

This image was taken from the International Space Station on March 8, 2004, from a position off the coast of Mauritania. (NASA/DVIDS) The Pentagon is looking for cheap commercial satellites that can ...

In 2006, NASA’s Stardust mission accomplished something no other spacecraft had done before: it returned solid material from beyond the Moon’s orbit. The samples it brought back included interstellar ...

Debris from moonbound spacecraft has left craters on the lunar surface since the U.S. Apollo missions. But the moon is not used to being surrounded by debris. With an expected resurgence in lunar ...