After soaring skyward due east, the rocket's first-stage booster landed aboard SpaceX's drone ship Just Read the Instructions ...

Test your knowledge of iconic U.S. astronauts and their historic space missions. This quiz covers pioneering achievements, ...

Several hundred current and former NASA employees, including at least four retired astronauts, backed a letter that opposes ...

While terrifying, there's an overlooked NASA spacewalk which looks equally terrifying to untrained Earth-dwellers. In 1984, ...

Auroras (also called the northern and southern lights) are visible from the ground after powerful solar storms, but these ...

John Casani, who has died aged 92, was an American spaceflight engineer who led the teams that pioneered Nasa’s explorations ...

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

JACKSON – Staff, students, former students and parents came out to say goodbye to the Christa McAuliffe Middle School during a recent “Honoring McAuliffe” open house event. A ceremony was held where ...

And, more famously, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded less than two minutes after takeoff ... Obviously, no one wants an emergency on the launch pad, but a photo of someone going from an exploding ...

The third stage highlighted in this photo is being added for the upcoming Vega-C flight VV27, which plans to take several CO3D satellites into space.

There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all designed to fly at least 100 missions.

Retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau describes the time he picked up a spinning satellite in space known as Spartan 207. Garneau retrieved the satellite in May 1996 during space ...