Margaret Hamilton, the trailblazing computer scientist whose software was crucial in putting the first astronauts on the moon, has died at age 90. Hamilton led the software engineering team at the ...

Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team that developed Apollo's flight software. During the Apollo 11 landing, the system helped ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. July 20, 1969 – [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes ...

A gravity-defying competition that brewed in the background of geopolitics for decades is now roaring to the forefront — with China demonstrating rapid advances in space technology and the United ...

NASA is testing a new navigation system designed to help spacecraft reach difficult landing sites on the Moon and beyond, opening new possibilities for future exploration missions. The agency revealed ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct Ben Honey’s title. When Apollo 11 approached the moon on July 20, 1969, its planned landing zone in the Sea of Tranquility was unexpectedly cluttered ...