India continues to refine the hardware and recovery procedures for its Gaganyaan human spaceflight program. The latest exercise, called the Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-01), was carried out at the ...

In September 2023, fossils of Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi were sent into space aboard a Virgin Galactic flight. This controversial decision sparked outrage among scientists. While the ...

The Orion spacecraft being prepared for the Artemis 2 mission. Exploration programs would get a sharp funding increase in a House spending bill for fiscal year 2026. Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak The recent ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has announced a new scholarship opportunity for graduates of Space Camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. The UAH Space Camp ...

The chief of Russia's main spacecraft manufacturer issued a dire warning this week, saying that his corporation has reached a "critical" condition and cannot continue in its present state. "The ...

ON 20 February 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, but there were signs of trouble. As Glenn’s Friendship 7 spacecraft returned from its historic flight, a ...

I pity the people who couldn't admire James Arthur Lovell Jr.'s life while he was still alive. In a world where I feel like people of importance who aren't athletes or brain-dead celebrities are ...

Approximately 250 mi. above Lake Michigan, International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking across Earth as a green and red aurora moved ...

NASA has awarded KBR Wyle Services a potential 10-year, $3.6 billion contract to support the Johnson Space Center’s Human Health and Performance Directorate, which performs research to determine how ...

Fossilized ancient pre-human remains were launched into space on the 3rd commercial flight by Virgin Galactic on September 8th 2023. Let’s take a look at the reason as to why these fossils were on ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will have 13 months to develop a low-orbit telescope that will be part of a space mission expected to launch in 2027 to help select future moon landing sites, ...

Apollo 13 mission commander, astronaut Jim Lovell, has died. He was 97 years old. "We are saddened to announce the passing of our beloved father, USN Captain James A. ‘Jim’ Lovell, a Navy pilot and ...