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.

A flurry of solar activity in early March dumped enough heat in Earth's upper atmosphere to power every residence in New York City for two years. The heat has since dissipated, but there's more to come as the solar cycle intensifies.

Forty-five years ago, at 11:56 p.m. ET on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. He said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," and along with astronaut teammates Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, they helped change human history.

The European spacecraft Rosetta has become the first ever to catch up with a comet. It is a landmark step in a decade-long mission that scientists hope will help unlock some of the secrets of the solar system. Rosetta will accompany comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko on its trip around the sun and land ...

Watch live coverage as 'Star Trek' actor William Shatner goes to the edge of space on a private Blue Origin flight. If successful, Shatner, who is 90 years old, will be the oldest person to reach space.

On July 20, Blue Origin will fly its 16th New Shepard flight to space, and its first with astronauts on board. Broadcast starts at T-90 minutes to launch.

NASA is so sure the world will not come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, that they already released a video for the day after. Despite what the Mayan calendar may seem to say or doomsayers claim, NASA remains 100% confident that the world will not coming to an end in 2012.

A tour of Quito Ecuador in South America. We visited the Middle of the World and Museum. The country was aptly named after the equator when Finnish scientists in the 1800s declared it the prime place on Earth to measure the equator’s bulge. Thanks to this, Mount Chimborazo (6310m) in the country’s

My name is Raul Oaida (from Romania) and this is my LEGO tribute to the end of the space shuttle era. Proving that although retired, this machine can still fly, albeit in toy form.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on Mar. 8, 2019.