Thanks to its airplane-shaped folding, the paper plane is statically stable in the vacuum-like upper reaches of space. It ...

There is a long process to get the Space Shuttle into orbit around the Earth, primarily taking place at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This video features audio tracks available in over 20 ...

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Going to space is important for scientist so they can understand the galaxy, but what does it cost? Here's the average cost according to NASA.

In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch missions into orbit, according to a study soon to be published in the ...

At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America’s space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets Thursday morning on its way to a temporary housing location in ...

The manned Dragon space capsule from the Polaris Dawn mission in April 2024 shows off Elon Musk’s SpaceX program, whose spectacular success is detailed in a new book.

Boeing has launched two NASA astronauts toward the International Space Station on the company's Starliner capsule. It is the spacecraft's first crewed flight.

Opinion The space shuttle that never came home Seventy-three seconds after liftoff, Challenger exploded before millions of American eyes. Here is the story of its final moments.

The space shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space.