Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

Unlike a total solar eclipse, part of the sun is still visible during a partial solar eclipse, so there is no darkening of ...

Laval’s top line continued to grind out the minutes. With just over two minutes left, Toronto opted to pull their goalie to try to pull off a last-gasp comeback. Dauphin had entirely different plans ...

But this crazy invention never quite made it off the drawing board and became forgotten in a world obsessed with machines with wings. This is the never-built ICARUS rocket! One of the very first ...

On Saturday evening, the Boston Celtics hosted the Los Angeles Lakers in what was one of the most anticipated regular season matchups in recent NBA memory. The Celtics controlled this game ...

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The purchase of a drone barge that it will use for remote-controlled landings of its new Neutron rocket ship. The development of a new satellite designed for mass manufacture and easy packing inside.

That poses a problem: how to play if you don't have a buddy lined up. Hazelight's amusing but farcical "ship-you-a-friend edition" aside, the studio has a solution in the form of its Discord ...

But after the first-stage booster successfully landed atop a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the landing legs — and the booster tipped ...

It was not immediately clear whether the explosion was caused by SpaceX's automated flight termination system, which triggers when something on the rocket goes wrong. The ship showed signs of ...

A SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it was launched from Texas on Thursday, grounding flights and triggering warnings about falling spaceship debris. SpaceX confirmed the un-crewed ship had ...

The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted body of the rocket hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers. The only ...