In 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless II made history—and defied human instinct—by stepping into the vast void of space ...

NASA's Swift Satellite, a cosmic 'first responder,' completes its 22-year mission with a spectacular re-entry over Indonesia.

Cape Town’s maritime rescue teams could one day find themselves responding to an emergency unlike anything in their usual ...

Now SpaceX plans to wind down the Falcon 9 within the next few years to better accommodate the company's sprint toward using ...

SpaceX’s ubiquitous Falcon 9 rocket has lofted astronauts, NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft, the European ...

It wouldn't even be the first time that the commercial space sector has lent NASA a helping hand. In March of last year, ...

NASA is accelerating its return to the Moon, targeting a crewed lunar landing in 2028 in a program designed to establish ...

In December 1972, astronaut Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, climbed the ladder of a lunar module, leaving the last ...

NASA tomato seeds spent nearly six years in orbit before 3.3 million students planted them, and some schools feared the space ...

A woman in her 80s in Sapporo reportedly lost ¥1 million after an online acquaintance claiming to be an astronaut said his ...

Space is full of mysterious sounds, some of which even have explanations. But that's far from the case when it comes to this knocking sound heard decades ago.

In the movie The Martian, an astronaut stranded on Mars stays alive by growing potatoes in the planet’s dirt. Real Martian soil isn’t one kind of dirt, though, and some of it looks like a much better ...