The pioneers: Fruit flies and Albert the monkey The first animals to reach space were fruit flies, launched aboard a V-2 rocket by the United States ... into space in 1961 aboard Mercury-Redstone 2.

President Donald Trump's increased tariffs on all US steel and aluminum imports have come into effect, stepping up a campaign to reorder global trade in favour of the US and drawing swift ...

Weston manager Scott Bartlett said his side’s draw with Somerset rivals Bath City was ‘probably a fair result’. Neither side could break the deadlock when they met on Saturday (March 8 ...

The truth is that few, if any, Democratic leaders have the capacity to draw such crowds on short notice or organize the related logistics on a national scale. The party’s nascent class of 2028 ...

Arsenal's fading hopes of winning the Premier League suffered a fresh blow as Manchester United held the Gunners to a 1-1 draw, while Chelsea ... with a long-range rocket in the second half ...

A SpaceX rocket has exploded during a test mission over Texas, grounding flights and triggering warnings about falling wreckage. Elon Musk’s Starship, the largest rocket ever created ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

(The Center Square) - Entrepreneur Elon Musk shared his support for a congressional proposal to disempower a California governmental body that cited his support for President Donald Trump before ...

What many Americans likely call to mind are the “days of smoke and fire,” Marshall Director Joseph Pelfrey said, referring to the work conducted at Marshall to enable NASA’s launch of the first ...

Redstone’s 17-and-under basketball team didn’t back down, but this just wasn’t their night. They fell 69-50 to International on Feb. 24 in a postseason tournament at Fern Bell Recreation Center in ...

Minutes before it was scheduled to launch Monday, the first commercial mission of Europe's new heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 was called off due to an "anomaly" on the ground. It was the latest of ...