On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA. A year earlier, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, giving them an advantage in the ...

NASA archives confirm Apollo 18, 19, and 20 were canceled due to budget and diminishing returns. Multiple fact-checks and analyses conclude the “spaceship” is likely just a natural lunar ridge—and ...

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. (Neil Armstrong/NASA via ...