The Australian Space Agency has confirmed a burning object found in remote WA is most likely parts from a space launch ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Western Australian officials are monitoring a US spy satellite amid memories of the Skylab incident in 1979 when space junk crashed into ...

A flaming chunk of suspected space junk has crash landed in outback Western Australia. Stunned workers at a Pilbara mine site ...

Experts believe the debris, which was found on a remote mine site’s access road on Saturday, is part of a Chinese rocket.

WASHINGTON — As the space race – and the Apollo program – came to an end, NASA shifted the focus of its manned spaceflight program from exploration to science with the launch of the first U.S. space ...

In 1979, NASA knew that the 78 1/2-ton Skylab was starting to deteriorate and would re-enter the earth atmosphere. They knew it would break apart and that some 25 tons would fall to Earth but they ...

WASHINGTON -- NASA celebrates the 40th anniversary today of Skylab, America's first space station. It was conceived in Huntsville, Al., and saved there when the program nearly ended before it began. A ...

On 28 July 1973, the Skylab 3 crew of Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, and Owen Garriott lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, bound for the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit.

Skylab, America's first space station, had a dramatic birth and death. Damaged on its trip into space in 1973, it required an innovative repair—an expandable heat shield deployed through an ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Former astronaut Owen Garriott, who flew on America’s first space station, Skylab, and whose son followed him into orbit, has died at age 88. He died Monday at his home in ...

Looking to the skies in July 1979, Canadians and the world were on alert for debris from an American space station that was coming back to Earth. Skylab, which had been launched into orbit six years ...

Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) America’s first space station, Skylab, was launched 40 years ago today. Many of the discoveries made aboard the space station were then incorporated into ...