Baltimore County native Reid Wiseman will command NASA’s Artemis II mission, a historic crewed flight around the moon.

The crew members of the nine Apollo missions to the Moon remain, to this day, the farthest-flung human beings in history. The Moon is, on average, 250,000 miles (400,000km) from the surface of the ...

Artemis II could send humans near the moon for the 1st time since 1972 and crowds are expected to flood the Space Coast to bear witness.

NASA’s Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

NASA's Artemis II crew is ready for their 10-day moon mission, with launch scheduled for Wednesday, April 1, and an 80% 'go' weather forecast.

NYC stargazers could be less than a week away from getting a glimpse of a comet blazing its way through the cosmos as Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS passes just 89 million miles from Earth.

If weather conditions remain favourable and systems perform as expected, launch will be targeted for 6:24 p.m. ET ...

From April 14-30, the Lyrids meteor shower will light up the sky with shooting stars. The peak is April 21 and 22, when up to 20 meteors will appear per hour, traveling at more than 100,000 miles per ...