During a speech at a meeting of the National Space Council in Huntsville, Ala., Vice President…
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Virgin Galactic Rocket Plane Reaches Edge of Space
This was Virgin Galactic’s fifth supersonic-powered test flight. The venture marked another step forward in a…
Trump Says Space Force Creation a ‘National Security Priority’
President Trump signed an order to begin the process for establishing a new branch of the…
NASA Unveils Image of the Most Distant Object Ever Visited
NASA scientists revealed images of Ultima Thule, an object 4 billion miles from the sun. Pictures…
Russian Astronauts Inspect Mysterious Hole in Spacecraft
The astronauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev examined a small hole on the Soyuz Capsule during…
Full Video: InSight To Land on Mars
NASA’s InSight lander has touched down on Mars — more than six months and 300 million…
The Moment a Russian Rocket Failed During Launch
A rocket launched from Kazakhstan failed several minutes after liftoff. Both astronauts on board returned to…
Overlooked No More: Ruby Payne-Scott, Who Explored Space With Radio Waves
Payne-Scott helped establish the field of radio astronomy by using radio waves to detect solar bursts,…
Touching the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will fly through the punishing heat of the sun’s outer atmosphere.
What the ‘Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse Looked Like
The entire moon was in shadow for 103 minutes, about 15 minutes longer than the average…