NASA's Space Shuttle successfully reached orbit during its first attempt in April 1981. The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to the Moon also didn't explode during liftoff in July 1969.

It is the single largest element for NASA's Artemis II mission, slated to ferry a crew of astronauts around the far side of ...

A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday at 2:49 a.m. EDT (0649 GMT; 11:49 p.m. on ...

Seattle's Museum of Flight brings its collection of space artifacts up to the present day with a Blue Origin BE-3U rocket ...

As tens of millions of people around the world watched two US astronauts safely return to earth, a key player in Australia’s ...

A visit to Kennedy Space Center was a highlight of a month-long trip to the US, and to meet Hernández in person was a sweet ...

Space scientists have announced Saturn has 128 new moons. New findings have unveiled a new total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets combined. The International ...

The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle has returned to Earth after circling the world for 434 days.

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

On an episode of “The Story Behind the AP Story,” Associated Press space writer Marcia Dunn discusses the space odyssey of ...