An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...

During the historic Apollo missions, astronauts left more than just footprints and flags on the Moon — they also left behind ...

The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...

(CBS) – On this day in history, April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent a record-breaking 71 hours on the moon. The ...

NASA wants to come up with a way to transform 96 sacks of feces, urine and vomit ditched by Apollo 11 astronauts in1969.

Mars is the exciting next step in our exploration of space, but dust particles that were already a problem on the moon could ...

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

Widely acknowledged as one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence, the "Blue Marble" was ...

The patchwork blankets depict astronauts, rockets, capsules and bootprints, as well as — perhaps surprisingly — a few ...

NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge, offering a $3 million prize, seeks innovative solutions to transform the 96 bags of human waste left on the Moon by Apollo missions into valuable resources like water ...