News from the community includes items from the Cernan Earth and Space Center in River Grove, Darien, Elmhurst, Hinsdale and ...

NASA’s moon exploration plans call for nearly 80 launches, nearly 75 landers, 10 moon buggies and one nuclear reactor ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is about to pull off a dramatic close flyby of Mars, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to ...

Mitchell’s daughter says the late moonwalker believed too many credible pilots, astronauts and scientists had reported ...

A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to ...

A bold step toward returning humans to the Moon is underway with Blue Origin’s uncrewed MK1 “Endurance” lander, designed to test the technologies that future astronauts will rely on. Built in ...

These four parks districts are throwing down 2026 challenges to get people out on the trails. We explored one challenge trail ...

The Artemis II crew surprised 5-year-old ’Commander Jack,’ a viral fan who loves space with a signed spacesuit.

Forget "Star Trek’s" Captain Kirk, Luke Skywalker from "Star Wars" or even Michael Jackson’s moonwalk. I have the real deal, ...

The tendrils of Christina Koch’s flyaway hair swirled about in the gravityless cockpit of the Orion spacecraft, seeming to ...

The Artemis II astronauts’ journey to the moon and back landed them at the White House Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon — ...

The project began when a geologist friend told her she could buy a piece of lunar meteorite Bechar 003, which she did.