Earth and the Moon are forever locked in a gravitational embrace that has played a critical role in determining the fate of both worlds. Although they have grown more distant since their formative ...

European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...

It is true that crewed missions to the moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous. And we now have a long history going back decades of reliable, dependable, capable robotic exploration, including ...

Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft successfully simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief ...

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...

The Moon exerts a constant physical influence on Earth through gravity, light, and orbital interaction. Its mass shapes ocean ...

Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space. Today's launch kicked off Blue Origin's uncrewed NS-29 mission, so named because it was the 29th New Shepard flight to date.

In 1968, just a year before the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, NASA scientists discovered something that could have sent astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins plunging to their ...

For years now astronaut training for zero g conditions has been performed in the most extreme of environments, from free-falling aircraft to large pools of water. But if the German Aerospace Center ...