NASA hired Boeing along with SpaceX after the space shuttles retired to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. June5, 2024.

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity, the reusable rocket-powered space plane carrying the company’s first crew of tourists to space, has successfully launched and landed.

50 years ago, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission changed our world and ideas of what is possible by successfully landing humans on the surface of the moon⁠—and bringing them home safely⁠—for the first time in history. Today’s video Doodle celebrates this moment of human achievement by taking us through the jo

The European spacecraft Rosetta has become the first ever to catch up with a comet. It is a landmark step in a decade-long mission that scientists hope will help unlock some of the secrets of the solar system. Rosetta will accompany comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko on its trip around the sun and land ...

Watch live coverage as 'Star Trek' actor William Shatner goes to the edge of space on a private Blue Origin flight. If successful, Shatner, who is 90 years old, will be the oldest person to reach space.

UNC Chanel Hill laboratory discusses tardigrades on the National Geographic channel, with a film of tun formation by Daiki Horikawa.

Forty-five years ago, at 11:56 p.m. ET on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. He said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," and along with astronaut teammates Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, they helped change human history.

Watch live coverage of the SpaceX Crew-1 launch as four astronauts head to the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon will take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Millions of years ago incredible forces ripped apart the Earth’s crust creating our seven continents – each with its own distinct climate, its own distinct terrain and its own unique animal life. From the colourful paradise of South America to the scorching heat of Africa, Seven Worlds: One Planet s

A SpaceX rocket equipped with the first commercially developed crew capsule began a critical test Saturday morning March 2, 2019, when it blasted off toward the International Space Station. There was no one on board but that capsule could be used to take astronauts into space late this year.