CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA called off the launch of its mighty new moon rocket on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Monday after a last-minute cascade of problems culminating in unexplained…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts. Researchers had no idea if anything would sprout in the harsh moon…

Humboldt photographer and astronomer Mike Myer was out in the cold November predawn hours Friday to snap photos of the full moon as it was nearly encompassed by the Earth’s shadow for a partial lunar…

Friday morning sky watchers all across North America will get the chance to watch an almost total lunar eclipse. By an almost total lunar eclipse I mean that at mid-eclipse the Moon will be 97.4…

NEW YORK — NASA on Tuesday announced that the United States and seven other nations had signed accords that establish rules for space exploration. The Artemis Accords, named after the U.S. space agency’s program to…

At precisely 1:08 this afternoon, the moon will make its annual closest approach to the Earth. And when it becomes full at 10:35 p.m., it will be knighted a “supermoon” — or “Paschal Moon” or…

Look up toward the sky and wave hello to Earth’s new mini moon — even if you can’t see it. Our planet temporarily gained an additional, natural moon when a small asteroid was pulled into Earth’s…

President Donald Trump is calling for a 12% increase in NASA’s budget for 2021, a bump largely targeted at transforming the administration’s goal of landing people on the lunar surface by 2024 from ambitious dream…

HUMBOLDT ? Mike Myer is a time-traveler. Unlike the intrepid crew of the starship Enterprise, Mike seldom journeys far from his Humboldt home to pierce interstellar space and view objects as amazing as double stars,…

Humboldt astronomer and photographer Mike Myer snapped this gorgeous photo Monday morning of the rising sun, illuminating just a sliver of the waning crescent moon. Any moon within 24 hours of a new moon is…