What makes atmospheric re-entry so dangerous? This detailed breakdown explores how NASA engineered the Space Shuttle to survive a descent through superheated plasma at hypersonic speeds. The video ...

The 17th launch of the space shuttle took place 40 years ago today, kicking off the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B). [...] ...

On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. This was ...

The first 27 operational satellites for Amazon's Kuiper broadband network lifted off from Florida's Space Coast on Monday ...

For this all-citizen and private polar launch, it will be the first time that the quartet will be in space, and it will be the first time any human has done a 90-degree circularized orbit ...

On a trip to Hong Kong, the American told the city’s students about his career in hopes of inspiring them to reach for the ...

Dr Navneet Kumar Gupta and Dr Biju Dharmapalan Name of the book : ‘Space: The India Story’ Author : Dinesh C Sharma The human ...

Black astronaut Reginald G. Victor is set to be inducted into the prestigious U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of the 'Mercury Seven'.

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

Space missions are all about precision and planning… or at least, they’re supposed to be. But even in the vast, high-tech ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...