Columbia mission commander Rick Husband is most often spoken of in the context of his death alongside his fellow astronauts in 2003. However, he is remembered by his hometown of Amarillo as a ...

The debut mission of Northrop Grumman's new jumbo cargo spacecraft didn't go off without a hitch. The company's first "Cygnus ...

A group of gold commemorative Sacagawea coins, seven of which traveled into orbit aboard a NASA space shuttle, recently sold for more than $3 million.

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

A large-scale earthquake, a devastating space shuttle explosion, and the most deadly terrorist attacks in American history. Shockingly, these unthinkable tragedies and more were all captured on camera ...

Robotic and autonomous systems will continue to lead space exploration, preparing safe environments for human activity.

Based at Patrick Space Force Base on Florida's Space Coast, the 920th Rescue Wing is the Air Force Reserve's only combat ...

NASA officials said Monday they might go ahead with Tuesday's launch of the space shuttle Discovery even if a fuel sensor problem recurs that scrubbed the flight nearly two weeks ago. Discovery is set ...

The capture by the International Space Station's robot arm came a day late because of an unexpected, but now resolved, ...

In a world where raw tonnage commanded respect, these war machines pushed the limits of human engineering. From a mammoth ...