On October 24, 1960, a prototype Soviet missile exploded on the launchpad at Baikonur Cosmodrome, killing nearly 200 engineers and officers. Known as the Nedelin catastrophe, it remains the deadliest ...

An exclusive look at a Space Force training exercise offered rare insights into how the secretive branch is preparing to ...

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight ...

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

The Viking missions paved the way for future Mars missions and helped researchers understand the red planet’s climate and ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own space shuttle to rival America’s NASA program. Called Buran, it looked like the Space Shuttle but hid radical differences. In this ...

The U.S. is at risk of ceding its lead in the new space race to China, experts told a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, September 3, raising serious doubts about NASA’s ability to return ...

Update for Aug. 26: Blue Origin will not launch its latest uncrewed mission on Aug. 26 after all. "We're standing down on today's NS-35 launch attempt to continue to troubleshoot an issue with the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.

President Donald Trump has announced that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama. It reverses a decision by former ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration will announce on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary ...