A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane has landed back on Earth ...

This is the second installment of a two-part series about the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Read part one here. Elevation ...

The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most sophisticated man-made machine ever built. The Buran was similarly complicated, if not as high-quality. The vessel was built around the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is launching to the International Space Station for his fourth trip to space, and he and two ...

These “anomalies”—the term space ... on shuttle missions. These boosters, like missiles, use solid rocket fuel rather than liquid. “You want to get away from Earth’s gravity well and out of the thick ...

On Sept. 9, 1994, space shuttle Discovery took to the skies on its 19th trip into space. During their 11-day mission, the STS ...

The eventual decision to send Williams and Wilmore home on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission, which NASA announced over the weekend, was informed by lessons from the agency's two space shuttle disasters.

Days earlier, they made a ship-to-ship call with space shuttle Columbia, flying the STS-107 microgravity research mission. As the ISS flew over Ukraine and Columbia soared high above Brazil ...

The ISS took years to build and required a total of 37 U.S. space shuttle flights, as well as five Russian rocket launches, for the station to be completed. Related: The International Space ...

The Air Force says its first-ever privatized apartment complex at Edwards Air Force base will help fix a housing shortage.

In 1998, my colleagues and I watched from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center as one of our experiments ...

Brown from California, and 19 cosponsors, introduced House Joint Resolution 1299 to observe National Hispanic Heritage Week.