What does the space shuttle have in common with the original iPhone? According to Francisco Polidoro Jr., professor of ...

The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, ...

Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the architects of the Discovery moving plan, said that Isaacman is on board.

In 1944, as Germany faced defeat, Nazi engineers proposed one of the most ambitious aircraft concepts in history: the ...

This is the story of the Chrysler SERV, the bizarre-looking SSTO spacecraft that could've only been designed by Chrysler at ...

Houston-based Starlab Space recently completed a space station mockup at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Astronauts will test its design and use it for training.

Russia's space program has taken a drubbing in recent years, its reputation battered by corruption scandals, shrinking ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

Three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their shuttle was used to cart another group back to Earth, leaving them in the dust. Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang, all with the ...

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