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From Neil Armstrong to an all UM crew on an Apollo mission, the University of Michigan and Purdue University both featured large in the advent of space travel.

As NASA’s moon-landing plans with SpaceX hang in the balance, other bold ideas are quietly starting to take shape.

On Wednesday, the space companies owned by two of the richest people on Earth — Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — submitted ideas to the space agency for a faster program to land ...

Experts warn that the Starship Human Landing System may be years behind schedule, but SpaceX says it has a new plan to save its Artemis 3 contract.

When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Wednesday reached its closest point to the Sun, a point known as perihelion. Although this ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is ...

Before computers, NASA relied on “human computers” — mathematicians who solved complex equations for flight paths and ...

Here’s a look at the life of astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Personal Birth date: January 20, 1930 Birth place: Montclair, New Jersey Birth name: Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. Father: Edwin Aldrin Sr., an aviation ...

The coroner has released the cause of death for James Lovell, the famed commander of the Apollo 13 moon mission, who died in ...

In the 1970s, NASA partnered with the U.S. Postal Service on an overlooked project that helped shape modern EV development.