A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.

which NASA said it will also stream. There are seven crew currently onboard the ISS, four of whom will leave and “splash down off the coast of Florida” after a handover period. We estimate ...

In 1961, NASA launched a rocket carrying ... during the Vietnam War. In 1971, Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center ...

Two private missions heading for the moon have blasted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lunar landers launched in the middle of the night from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre and are the latest to ...

Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong is captured in an image taken by fellow moonwalker, Buzz Aldrin, following flag planting on the moon in July 1969. | Credit: NASA Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient ...

15, 1975, an Apollo moonwalker was its first passenger ... feeling that only astronauts had experienced up until then. "Blast off on a rip-roaring rocket into the furthest reaches of outer ...