Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type of jetpack known as the Manned Manoeuvring Unit, or MMU. The MMU fit over a ...

Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers unwittingly began paying attention to its movements once again.

Astronauts and spacecraft face constant bombardment from high-energy radiation, posing significant risks to both human health ...

Registration is open for faculty to attend the Westwood Lecture Series on Feb. 19. Two leading Purdue researchers will discuss the university’s growing role in the next revolution of ...

Rumors of a space nuke made geopolitical tensions extend into orbit. Amid an Escalating Arms Race in Space with Russia and ...

On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...

The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...

There is a massive space-age exhibition happening right now at BITEC BURI: the Space Journey Bangkok. Whether you are a ...

On Feb. 3, 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's ...