On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the atmosphere, showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia. The last ...

On July 10, 1962, the communications satellite Telstar 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to beam live ...

I’ve walked the halls of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, not as a tourist or outsider, but as someone trusted to help protect ...

On July 10, 1962, the communications satellite Telstar 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to beam live television from Europe to the United States. This was the first ...

On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space ...

U.S. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said the exercise will send a "clear message" that Space Force is ...

Pharmaceutical scientists come up against a hard limitation here on Earth: gravity. Varda Space wants to change that. The ...

But these Mission Extension Vehicles don't have the ability to transfer fluids from one satellite to another. That is the ...

China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites, known as SJ-21 and SJ-25 for short, likely docked together in geosynchronous ...

The new CdTe-on-glass technology offers a lighter, cheaper, and highly radiation-resistant alternative, targeting 20% ...

Not much can surprise someone who partook in four shuttle missions and three space walks during a 36-year career with NASA.

For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...