Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams has broken the record for total spacewalking time by a woman by logging 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalk.

When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...

The Challenge, which was open to 6th to 12th graders in schools across the nation, asked teams to design experiments that would then be taken on either a high-altitude balloon or a rocket-powered ...

All of its crew perished, including Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. A former combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, he was decorated for his role in the airstrike against Saddam Hussein’s ...

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Once docked, the private astronauts plan to spend up to 14 days aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting a mission comprised of science, outreach, and commercial activities.

A Gaffney High School graduate will be honored in April by the South Carolina Foundation for Educational Leadership. Charlie Blackwell- Thompson serves as launch director for NASA’s Exploration Ground ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.