space

Fifty years ago this week, America crowded around television sets to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first step onto the moon. Among the viewers was a kid…

It was the only part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that came back from the moon. Designing, testing and building it was a monumental task, according to two engineers who were part of the effort.

It was considered impossible. It was said to be like taking a picture of a grapefruit on the moon but with a radio telescope.That’s how 29-year-old…

Every image you've ever seen of a black hole has been a simulation. Until now. "We have seen what we thought was unseeable," said Event Horizon Telescope Director Shep Doeleman.

Since being selected as an astronaut by NASA in 2000, Lake Orion native Andrew Feustel has been on three space missions and spent more than 61 hours on…

On August 12, 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched into space on a mission to unveil some of the greatest mysteries surrounding our sun.The probe…

It's the stuff of science fiction: send a space mission to the sun.But science fiction became reality this week when NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe,…

The Perseids are coming!North America's favorite meteor shower will be most visible to Michigan stargazers on August 11, 12, and 13.The biggest question…

Space is the final frontier, as Star Trek's Captain Kirk observed. It is almost always yielding exciting surprises and discoveries.The latest finding is…

The federal government may have orchestrated the United State's history-making voyage to the moon in 1969, but the states weren't left out entirely. The…