Houston, the site of mission control for astronaut training, just got two new additions from Texas. Rebecca Lawler and Anna ...

From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of ...

Monumentally important, this is the first image of an American astronaut in space. In the Project Mercury spacecraft named ...

On Dec. 21, 1975, the notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal led a raid on a meeting of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna. German ...

BEIJING (AP) — China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China’s space station. Related ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors ...

Space is often described as silent, tranquil, and beautiful. A black infinity of stars, traversed by gleaming ships, where ...

Keep your eyes high in the sky this week to see the last supermoon of the year. December’s full supermoon, also called the cold moon, will be at its fullest around 6:14 p.m. ET Thursday, according to ...

Today is Friday, Dec. 19, the 353rd day of 2025 with 12 to go. The moon is new. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched his fiancee Lauren Sanchez into space Monday with an all-female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Gayle King. It was the latest wave in space tourism, where ...

After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...