Returning to Earth is one of the most dangerous phases of spaceflight, and the Space Shuttle was built to endure it like no other vehicle before. As it re-entered the atmosphere at Mach 25, the ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

After Blue Origin's latest New Shepard launch that featured an all-women celebrity crew, many are wondering, are they now ...

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore departed the International Space Station (ISS) early on Tuesday morning and splashed down off the coast of Florida after a journey of 17 hours. Boeing’s Starliner, ...

The early 1960s saw a litany of advances in spaceflight, as well as the militarization of space. And the MiG-105 ... of orbital missions and atmospheric reentry. Alarmed by this development ...

As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA ...

A former astronaut, Bowersox saw his own space station mission abruptly prolonged. He was up there with Don Pettit, who’s currently aboard the orbiting lab, when shuttle Columbia broke apart during ...