When Israel's Beresheet lunar spacecraft crashed in April 2019, there were thousands of microscopic, dehydrated tardigrades - water bears - aboard.

For mosquitoes, finding the next blood meal is all about smelling and seeing. It's our breath that gives us away.

This short video, just over a minute long, takes you on a journey from 1991, when no exoplanets were known, to today's 4,003+ known exoplanets. Why the plus? According to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, the number of known exoplanets has already jumped up to 4,031 and counting!

Robert Pettengill reports from the busy ACEAP (Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassador Program) annual trip, happening now in Chile.

India's 2nd moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, successfully carried out its 3rd orbit-raising maneuver on Monday. It will soon enter trans-lunar orbit, with the goal of landing on the moon on September 7.

Members of the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program are heading to Chile for a tour of its great observatories, July 27 to August 5, 2019.

NASA engineers are working on a new family of space robots that can roll, climb, and use artificial intelligence to navigate around obstacles in rough terrains on other worlds. Meet the family, here.

With virtually no atmosphere on the moon - and, therefore, no wind - flags that fly freely on Earth would hang like limp cloth in the lunar environment. So Apollo 11 engineers had to rethink flagpole design entirely.

Don't believe the moon landings were real? Go ahead. Watch this.

The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to the moon.