The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it ...

The Space Shuttle era ended with Atlantis’s final flight on July 21, 2011, closing a major chapter in space exploration. For ...

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

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

A satellite dish that extends from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery mysteriously failed Thursday morning, leaving the seven-member crew without a radar used for navigation and without any ...

No one doubts that rocket tests mean failures, but the question for Starship is this: Is it just having extended teething ...

SpaceX is ten full-scale test launches into developing its enormous, nearly 400-feet-tall Starship, the most powerful rocket ...

Four undergrads at Texas Christian University joined forces to create a seam that is meant to prevent lunar dust from ...

As SpaceX prepares to send up its 19th Dragon spacecraft with humans on board, the Boeing Starliner — which has only ...

Historically, space exploration has been tied to high cost and high complexity, making commercial space prospects unrealistic ...

When Chiaki Mukai and Naoko Yamazaki, the only Japanese women to have traveled to space, first aspired to become astrona ...

Ditch your astronaut dream. Public space exploration is being replaced by the astronomically rich and their pals.