A foam strike 82 seconds after launch set Columbia on a fatal course, but a 2003 investigation explored a last-minute ...
The Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most productive scientific observatories ever launched, is in a gradual but inevitable ...
The crawler carrying the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft was built 60 years ago to haul NASA’s Saturn V rockets, then kept ...
The Challenger Learning Center is honoring its namesake in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy ...
That kind of strong leadership and great teamwork are the real safety systems of spaceflight.
A medical emergency will force four astronauts aboard the International Space Station to return to Earth prematurely.
A team of scientists has estimated that the Hubble Space Telescope could reenter Earth’s atmosphere and meet its fiery demise ...
Live updates from the return of the NASA SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts. Splashdown occurred at 3:41 a.m. Jan. 15 off the coast of ...
In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue ...
On January 16, 1920, the United States began enforcing Prohibition, a nationwide ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic ...
T he Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been pivotal to progress in the last three decades of astronomy and cosmology.
A growing cadence … The Ariane 6 rocket has launched five times, including its debut flight in July 2024. All of the launches ...