It was thirty years ago this week that President Ronald Reagan gave a historic speech proposing, for the first time, a space-based anti-ba...

The crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia , who perished in re-entry from Mission STS-107 t en years ago today February 1, 2003

Neil Armstrong 1930 - 2012

Fifty years ago today, on February 20th 1962, John Glenn flew inside a Mercury space capsule christened Friendship 7 atop an Atlas LV-3B r...

That's if he's elected President, 'course (and if he wins re-election in 2016). Read about Gingrich's plans for a lunar est...

The orbiter Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning, at 5:57 a.m. And so, after 135 missions that began on April 12...

High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joi...

Remember when the Mir space station came crashing and burning out of the sky nine years ago? I was watching that on TV and among friends we...

Assuming that we could ever figure out how to travel faster than the speed of light, there may not be a heck of a lot that we could do with...

(Sounds like a Weekly World News headline, don't it? :-) I'm praying that we will keep having clear skies until later tomorrow, ...

For $8,000 you can purchase the TubeSat Personal Satellite from Interorbital Systems . Then you outfit your satellite however you like, and...

"...one giant leap for mankind." (And before anybody gives me grief over it, in the past few years audio analysis has determined t...

Thanks to a newly-tested and approved recycling system aboard the International Space Station, its long-term crews are now able to drink wat...

When the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted into orbit two days ago, it might have taken this bat along for the ride . NASA technicians spott...

At least 600 pieces of spaceborne shrapnel are now plaguing the sky, no thanks to an unprecedented collision between two satellites in low-E...

Just six months after initial tests of the delivery vehicle, Iran has launched its first satellite into space . Early this morning a Safir-...

A few days ago during a spacewalk at the International Space Station, astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper accidentally lost her bag of to...

Twenty years ago yesterday the Buran (shown landing at left), the Soviet Union's answer to the American-made NASA space shuttle system,...

There are ten more missions for the Space Shuttle fleet, as NASA has revealed the final slate of missions before the system is retired, aft...

A Japanese firm is offering weddings in space beginning next year , and now officials with both state-sponsored space agencies and private c...