The computer that guided astronauts to the moon and back operated with roughly 2,048 words of erasable memory and 36,864 words of fixed memory, running at a clock speed near 2 MHz. A smartphone released in the past few years can execute billions of operations per second while simultaneously streaming video,

On the 55th anniversary of the incident that killed three astronauts, the lessons learned persist. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's last moonbound program for astronauts lifted ...

Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We are enormously proud of his amazing life and career accomplishments ...

Much of the UFO imagery that the Pentagon released last week was new, but we've long known about the odd things that the Apollo astronauts saw near the moon.

WASHINGTON — NASA has announced a schedule of events to commemorate the achievements of the Apollo program and the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing. Among the activities is a news conference with astronauts from several Apollo missions ...

More than five decades after the last Apollo crew left the lunar surface, the boot prints they pressed into the regolith remain visible from orbit. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has captured the Apollo 11 descent stage and the trails astronauts walked,