Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Artemis II crew's view of a solar eclipse from the Orion spacecraft. NASA’s Artemis II mission made history again on Tuesday when the crew, traveling on their Orion spacecraft ...

The individual who fell ill, NASA's Mike Fincke, says the medical team is almost certain that the issue was related to being in space

Artemis II astronauts completed a historic radio communication with the International Space Station during their return from the moon. This marks the first ever moonship-to-spaceship radio linkup, uniting crews across vast space distances.

Faced with the imminent retirement of the International Space Station, NASA is pushing to speed up work on its potential replacements

Call it Spud-nick. An image of a tentacled growth in space has caused an uproar online with freaked-out viewers imploring astronauts to “kill it with fire.” Viral photos showed the floating, purple egg-shaped object with tendrils exploding out of it like the poster for the 1979 sci-fi horror flick “Alien.

As the US sets its sights on establishing a permanent base on the moon, its foothold in an area of space much closer to home is growing more uncertain.

The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit. While the photo looks like a sci-fi horror prop, it actually represents the front line of human survival: a proof-of-concept for a journey to Mars.