NASA’s space shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew members on board.

NASA's Space Shuttle programme officially ended in 2011, after 30 years of service. The final mission, STS-135, was flown by ...

Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 and currently serves as its CEO, chief technology officer, and chief designer. Despite leading several other companies, Musk remains intensely involved in the ...

Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, contains the remains of more than 400,000 people from the United States and 13 other countries, buried there since the 1860s. More than three ...

William Langewiesche, whose extraordinary body of white-knuckle narrative reporting from all parts of the globe appeared in these pages over a period of decades, died earlier this week at the age of ...

As a correspondent for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair and the New York Times, he wrote vivid accounts of aviation disasters, shipwrecks and the Iraq War.

The U.S. State Department has recalled its top diplomat in Colombia for urgent consultations. The move follows comments from ...

Howard Lutnick says bananas — a tropical fruit — should be grown in the US Moment girl, 11, narrowly saves baby sister from runaway vehicle in last-second rescue Sarah Jessica Parker "Shocked ...

Scientists studying ancient human remains uncovered in Colombia have found that the people they were researching have no known ancestors or modern descendants. In a study published May 30 in the ...

Elon Musk said Thursday his aerospace company SpaceX will ground Dragon, the spacecraft NASA uses to service the International Space Station amid his falling out with President Trump. “In lig… ...

Though R2 never went on a spacewalk, it performed well inside the space station. When tele-operated by ISS crew members, R2 handily pressed buttons, flipped switches, turned knobs, and handled tools.

COLUMBIA — 2847 Commerce Drive started as a building decked out in '70s wallpaper. One half, which used to hold a car service company, housed two hydraulic presses and large garage doors. The ...