Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity, the reusable rocket-powered space plane carrying the company’s first crew of tourists to space, has successfully launched and landed.

As part of our popular space exploration series we present this local rocket launch reaching very high altitudes and then returning back to the launch site with a baloon parachu landing.

Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein's Theory: A team of scientists announced on Thursday, February 11, 2015 that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein's general theo...

NASA already has a plan to house astronauts on Mars. NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge asked engineers to design houses that could be built on Mars by robots using 3D printing technology. NASA recently announced winners of phase three of the competition and each house has a futuristic design. Each

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has begun beaming back photographs of the surface of Pluto as it approaches the dwarf planet. . Report by Conor Mcnally.

Scott Kelly and his twin brother, Mark Kelly—also an astronaut—were the subjects of the study that sought to find out exactly what happens to the body after a year in space. Scott stayed on the International Space Station from March 2015 to March 2016, while Mark remained on Earth. This was the fina

Launched nearly 28 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has changed our understanding of the cosmos, allowing us to calculate the age of the universe and the rate at which it is expanding. Hubble has allow us to peer back to almost the origins of the universe, to locations more than 13.4 billion li...

Flying from Orlando, FL the crew recorded on video rare footage of Discovery's final launch as it embarks on STS-133.

When Wylie Overstreet set up his telescope outside on a whim, he had no idea he would inspire awe in hundreds of strangers on the streets of Los Angeles, reminding them of their common humanity.

NASA hired Boeing along with SpaceX after the space shuttles retired to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. June5, 2024.