Shannon Airport has had many eye-catching visitors over the years. But the prospect of a NASA space shuttle hurtling towards ...

The next generation of orbital outposts is being designed to skip the painstaking, decade‑long construction that defined the ...

Students at Morgan Academy traded their usual afternoon lessons for a front-row seat to space exploration on Dec. 18, as ...

The space agency failed to declare the spacecraft's thruster glitch as a mishap, creating confusion and uncertainty.

On June 28, 1983, Sally Ride became the first female in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger. In September 1983, NASA announced that Anna would become the first mother to go into space when she was ...

Despite that unique vantage, the celebrations often look quite similar to how they would here on Earth. NASA astronauts share ...

Another member of the safety panel, Mark Sirangelo, said NASA should formally declare mishaps and close calls as soon as possible. “It allows for the investigative team to be starting to be formed a ...

Life on the International Space Station requires some adjustments, including to astronauts' diets. Here are four food and ...

Discover how the International Space Station stayed alive after using Soyuz support and new shuttle inspections to keep science going.

The past decade has clearly demonstrated the superiority of private entrepreneurship over state-run spaceflight.

A year-end recap of 2025 in space, covering NASA leadership changes, space policy, major missions, scientific discoveries and key events across orbit and beyond.

This impressive project involved cooperation between multiple countries, as well as a litany of spiralling construction costs ...