Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

"We are faced with another space race," Jared Isaacman, NASA's new administrator, told NBC News after he was sworn in on ...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. Daughter Kimberlee Heinrichs told The Associated ...

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

John Vukmirovich notes the turmoil in the country mirrors 1968, but that year ended with the Christmas Eve orbit of the moon.

The most iconic photograph of the Space Conquest. The most sought-after Apollo image in the world, and increasingly rare on ...

Apollo 17, the final NASA mission to send humans to the Moon for Project Apollo, splashed down on this day in 1972. [...] ...

President Trump's social media platform plans to merge with a nearly 30-year-old energy company, providing it with some $300 ...

Is this heaven? No, but there are pieces of the heavens in Iowa — and 135 countries, all U.S. states and the United Nations.

Space is full of mysterious recordings. Apollo 11's original tapes vanished, amateur radio operators captured doomed cosmonaut transmissions, and astronauts heard unexplained music on the Moon. The ...