Category: Space Exploration

How going to the Moon really did change the world—back on Earth

50 years after Apollo, a U.S. return to the Moon looks depressingly far off

‘Space Invaders’ movie is closer to becoming a reality

SpaceX’s Starhopper will undergo hover test next week

Virgin Orbit preps the LauncherOne rocket for its first drop test

In National Geographic’s ‘Apollo: Missions to the Moon’ and PBS’ ‘Chasing the Moon’, the most arresting moments happen on Earth

Playboy Playmates went to the Moon—but almost no one knew it for 25 years

The celebrity cruise to celebrate the end of the Moon landings was a delightful train wreck

The charming conspiracy that put the first American flag on the Moon

How to fix a fender bender in space

Scientists trace a cosmic radio burst to a galaxy 3.6 billion light-years away

OK Go is helping these kids make art in outer space

SpaceX caught the nose cone of its Falcon Heavy rocket in a net, on a boat, in the middle of the ocean

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were lost on the Moon. Really

The Philadelphia oil refinery explosion was so big, it could be seen from space

PBS celebrates the lunar landing’s anniversary with a space miniseries

The Moon is not made out of green cheese

Watch SpaceX launch Earth observation satellites

Simpler, air-powered soft robots could help with space exploration

Why the Moon landing matters, 50 years later

Your brain works in space. But when President Kennedy said we’d go to the Moon, we didn’t know that

NASA’s Hubble Legacy Field image contains 16 years of data

You can now help search for David Copperfield’s secrets on the moon

After Math: Eat your heart out, Soundgarden

Black hole live stream: Watch scientists unveil the first-ever image