What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

"We must honor their sacrifice by fortifying our commitment to safety and excellence as new generations of space explorers, follow their footsteps." ...

NASA holds a Day of Remembrance to pay respect to the lives lost while working to further the understanding of space. This includes the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia.

Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...

Kranz was not claiming that failure was never an option; he was insisting that his team must not fail when it mattered most.

When the SpaceX Starship exploded over the Atlantic Ocean last week, I immediately thought of Elon Musk’s observation: “If ...

From a technological standpoint, yes – it can be done. SpaceX's Starship has yet to reach orbit, and the last launch ...

Rood, University of Michigan An Arctic blast hitting the central and eastern U.S. in early January 2025 has been creating fiercely cold conditions in many places. Parts of North Dakota dipped to more ...

During his second inauguration speech, President Donald Trump endorsed a Mars mission as a part of America’s push into new ...

Robert A. Kopack, University of South Carolina If there is a leader in the aerospace industry, SpaceX is it. The company’s Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon spacecrafts are the current go-to vehicles to ...

The Moon has been listed as a vulnerable site- the first time a location beyond Earth has been categorised as such. The World ...

The SpaceX rocket carries lunar landers from companies based in Texas and Japan. They could arrive at the moon in the coming ...