Many believed that perhaps the Soviet Union would ultimately triumph in the Space Race to the Moon. But while NASA’s Apollo ...
ESA ran a full-scale solar storm drill to prepare for the next Carrington Event - an eruption powerful enough to disrupt life on Earth.
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 ...
As satellites, spacecraft and supporting ground systems become foundational to global navigation, defense and commerce, the ...
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 ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A resupply mission to the International Space Station hit a snag Monday morning when the Cygnus XL spacecraft experienced an engine shutdown during its approach, NASA officials ...
Apollo 13 was meant to be a routine Moon mission but became a fight for survival. This documentary explores the crisis, the ingenuity, and the rescue that made history.
A Russian satellite crash landed in a field south west of Moscow earlier this month while carrying some unusual cargo: about 1,500 flies, 75 mice, seeds, a bunch of microbes, and various cell tissues.
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 ...