A massive coronal mass ejection (CME) is hurtling from the Sun's far side, setting a collision course for the unusual ...

From the brink of failure to a $350 billion valuation, SpaceX is now the world’s most valuable private company, surpassing ...

In the July 2003 issue of Astronomy, Bob Berman describes some of the space age’s failures, from the tragic loss of the shuttles Columbia and Challenger to the nearly catastrophic Apollo 13 mission.

Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos’ orbit. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent ...

With satellite mega-constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink deploying thousands of spacecraft, monitoring their health has become an enormous challenge. Traditional methods can’t easily scale to handle ...

A whopping 11,000 pounds of supplies and scientific instruments that were headed to the International Space Station are in limbo after a high-profile malfunction. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL ...

The tragic launch rehearsal that nearly ended the Apollo Moon Program. The Mir Space Station collision of 1997. The re-entry failure of Space Shuttle Columbia. Each NASA and Soviet space mission is a ...

Update for 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17: The Cygnus XL overcame its thruster issue and is now on track to rendezvous with the space station on Thursday (Sept. 18) at 7:18 a.m. EDT (1118 GMT), according to ...

Introduction -- Fire onboard: Apollo 1 -- Death in a fireball: Soyuz 1 -- Nerves like wire rope: Gemini 6A -- Emergency landing in the Pacific: Gemini 8 -- Death at supersonic speed: X-15 -- Odyssey ...