The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum complex and research center, with collections in every area of ...

On this day in 1971, NASA’s Apollo 15 mission concluded with a dramatic splashdown 335 miles north of Honolulu after a ...

Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical ...

August in DC means you’re either sweating through your shirt or chasing down the next great event—sometimes both. Forget ...

On May 6, 1968, NASA footage captured a harrowing moment in the lead-up to the Apollo 11 mission as Neil Armstrong piloted a ...

On Aug. 2, 1971, a lunar liftoff was televised for the first time. Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin spent ...

Wikimedia Commons/NASA/Apollo 11 The groundbreaking Apollo 11 moon landing When the Soviets beat America to space twice, ...

On July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts drove on the moon for the first time. David Scott, the commander of Apollo 15, and ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar ...

“An exciting implication of our study is that seismic shaking, caused by moonquakes generated by movement on young faults ...