If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers. According to NASA, it stood at only 184 feet ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through the atmosphere, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe was on a mission to discover ...

If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers. According to NASA, it stood at only 184 ...

Last year was a big one for the space sector, marked by SpaceX’s building momentum, Boeing Co.’s Starliner struggles, and a slew of activity from a host of names. So what can we expect in 2025?

2025 will be a crucial year for NASA's plans to return humans to the moon as part of the Artemis program, but there won't be any rockets going up. Instead, space enthusiasts will track NASA's ...

The core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System, the rocket that will be used for the Artemis II moon mission, at Cape Canaveral, Fla., in July.Credit...Chandan Khanna/Agence France-Presse ...

The SLS consists of a core booster utilizing four repurposed RS-25 engines from NASA’s retired space shuttle, and two nonrecoverable uprated solid rocket boosters (SRB), also adapted from the ...

Have you looked up at the night sky this season and noticed a bright object sporting a reddish hue to the left of Orion? This is none other than the planet Mars! January will be an excellent ...

With the year almost over, we look at the biggest space achievements of 2024 from NASA, SpaceX, China, and more.