Robert Z. Pearlman

The journal pages of Israel's first astronaut have been added to the country's national library, more than 20 years after they were found among the debris from the tragedy that claimed his life.

A twice-flown SpaceX capsule has debuted at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, next to a Mercury spacecraft and an Apollo command module.

What do two dinosaur tails, four beehives and 88 faucets have to do with a rocket designed to fly astronauts to the moon? They are hidden details in the Lego Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System.

Adam Higginbotham was out with his first book when he got the idea. "People often asked me whether I remembered where I was when I heard the news about Chernobyl." He didn't, but recalled Challenger.

Lego is gearing up to deliver a detailed model of the original "rock and rolling ride," the electric buggy driven by NASA's last three Apollo crews to explore the moon.

What do you do for an encore after you have virtually transported thousands of Houstonians to the International Space Station? If you are Felix & Paul, you invite them back, to fly to the moon.

It's been four years since it was made, but if you could smell it, you'd find it still retains the whiff of a DoubleTree Cookie. The first food item baked in space is now at the Smithsonian.

What has one horn, two crewmates and shares a name with its ride into orbit? "Calypso," the plush sequined narwhal that is flying on the crew flight test of "Calypso," Boeing's CST-100 Starliner.

A patch created to honor Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a U.S. spacecraft, features a geometric pattern representing the glow of her space shuttle lifting off into the night sky.

The launch of astronauts on a Boeing spacecraft will mark a first for the company, but will also bring human spaceflight back to a rocket and launch site after more than 50 years.

The first Hispanic woman to launch into space is now the second female astronaut to be awarded the United States' highest honor. Ellen Ochoa was bestowed with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

When Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams lift off for the ISS on May 6, they will become the first astronauts to fly on Boeing's CST-100 Starliner. But that's not their only new ride.

Sixty-one years after it stood ready to send NASA's last one-man mission into orbit, the Mercury-Atlas 9 rocket is standing again. A replica is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force.

The first woman slated to launch to the moon has delivered one of the first trees grown from seeds recently flown there. NASA astronaut Christina Koch presented an "Artemis 1 Moon Tree."

Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub are back inside the International Space Station after just 4.5 hours outside.

Get ready space fans, Lego is about to launch two sets that can take you from the moon to edge of our cosmic neighborhood: Lego Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System and Lego Art Milky Way Galaxy.

The "Hoppers" — five European astronauts and the first astronaut from the Australian Space Agency — are now ready to "hop" into their first flight assignments, having completed basic training.

Muhammed Faris, who was the first cosmonaut from Syria and second Arab to fly into space, has died at the age of 72.

Apple TV+ is headed back to the past, and the future, with a fifth season of "For All Mankind" and new spinoff "Star City." Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are returning to lead both.

To see the premier astronomical observatory in its full-size glory, you need to go to Lagrange Point 2, a location farther away than anyone has traveled. Or, soon, you can visit Colorado.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage lifted off for a record-setting 20th time on Friday (April 12), sending 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.

Vulcan, United Launch Alliance's new heavy-lift rocket, was not the result of being exposed to gamma rays or the bite of a radioactive spider, but it does have an origin story worthy of a comic book.

Watching the new trailer for the upcoming movie "Fly Me to the Moon" might leave you thinking that it is an entire work of fiction. And for the most part, you would be correct.

CNN is set to conclude airing a four-part series on space shuttle Columbia's ill-fated last return to Earth. "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight" airs on Sunday (April 14).

Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, has died at the age of 89. Aksyonov logged almost 12 days in space and orbited Earth 189 times.