NASA is hoping to put the system through its paces with the uncrewed Artemis 1 test flight that will ferry an Orion capsule around the moon. The agency hasn't yet set a date for the launch, but it ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

See NASA's massive SLS moon rocket fire up ... Test fires are a lot of fun, as we saw last year when an SLS booster lit up the Utah desert and turned sand into glass.

HALF MOON BAY (CBS SF) -- A man died on a Half Moon Bay beach after a tunnel he was digging collapsed, burying him under four feet of sand Monday night.

(07-22) 17:19 PDT HALF MOON BAY-- A 26-year-old man died at a Half Moon Bay beach after a sand tunnel he was digging collapsed, trapping him for more than 30 minutes, officials said.

The effects of the Sand fire over the last few days have cast an ominous yet picturesque pall across the Los Angeles Basin, the sun and the moon eliciting comparisons to J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Eye ...

Weather permitting, a crescent-shaped partial solar eclipse, where only part of the sun is covered by the moon, will be visible in all 49 continental US states, including Alaska, according to NASA.

Today, NASA's White Sands Test Facility and private companies prepare for future missions. LAS CRUCES - The space flight known as Apollo 11 brought the first human beings to the moon on July 20, 1969.

Don't worry — the sun, moon and everyone watching will be just fine. According to NASA, the planned launch of three scientific rockets from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico is part of a ...

When responding Cal Fire crews showed up at Francis State Beach in Half Moon Bay about 5:30 p.m., they found a man in his 20s “completely covered by sand,” authorities said.