The rollout sets the stage for tests and dress rehearsals ahead of NASA's first crewed flight to the moon in more than 50 ...

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, built to support the agency's Artemis 2 mission and usher in a new era of crewed ...

On Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its 28th mission, STS-107. NASA had five additional space shuttle ...

The increasing number of commercial space launches and the upward trend in upmass serve as unmistakable signs of space industry growth. Space is a high-risk, high-reward industry, however. Space ...

Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a reusable space flight vehicle that came with a lower cost and could stay in ...

NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft for a year, a setback to efforts to fly a successor to its aging space shuttles, the space agency announced Monday.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The final planned space shuttle mission, ...