Sally Ride launched into space in 1983. She was the only woman in a five-person crew on the Challenger’s STS-7 mission. After ...

Tam O’Shaughnessy came out as Sally Ride’s partner of twenty-seven years when she wrote of the relationship in Ride’s ...

Today’s armed forces need satellites to function. Space is thus increasingly becoming a militarized zone. After relying on ...

By offering the ability to track wildfires, flooding, land use, infrastructure and urban development, satellite imagery fuels ...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of Baikonur, the world's first and largest spaceport, which played a key role in the development of manned spaceflight and became a symbol of ...

ASTANA – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered a video address on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Baikonur ...

Chinese Communists blockading the island of Taiwan (then called Formosa) – Back then, Communists were routinely called Reds ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. It was the first satellite in Earth's orbit. Or was it? For over a hundred ...

Satellite Beach, Florida, is a relatively new town by Florida standards. It was incorporated in 1957 and is south of Patrick Space Force Base.

President Donald Trump has named a four-star Space Force general to oversee the development of Golden Dome -- the massively expensive space-based missile defense system promised during the first ...

For the second time in six months, SpaceX will deploy a US military satellite ... to launch its first national security mission around the middle of this year, following the Space Force's ...