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 ...

NASA hasn't closed the door on the possibility — and the man in line to be the agency's next chief is a champion of the idea.

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

German startup Atmos Space Cargo says it considers the first flight of its reentry vehicle a success despite limited data on ...

A former NASA scientist explains how we know whether Blue Origin New Shepard made it to space, and how its altitude compares ...

On February 1, 2003, tragedy struck the space shuttle Columbia, as earlier damage to the craft's left wing caused the shuttle to be destroyed upon reentry, killing all seven astronauts on board. It ...

The recoverable spacecraft reentered off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean instead of the Indian Ocean, and therefore could not be recovered.

The shuttle’s skin contracts slightly while in orbit, then expands during reentry. In addition ... are particularly vulnerable to strikes from space debris. About 30 to 100 tiles are replaced ...

Conspiracy theorists specifically targeted the mission patch that each member of the New Shepard Crew wore. On a starry ...