The three men responsible for the success of Explorer 1, America's first Earth satellite which was launched January 31, 1958. NASA October 4: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 into earth orbit.

Katy Perry, the famous pop-star human being, is literally going on a mission to space. She’ll be on the next launch from Blue Origin, the private space-travel company founded by Jeff Bezos.

Trump again called on the United States to send astronauts to Mars in his speech to a joint session of Congress. President Donald Trump told lawmakers that U.S. astronauts will one day carry the ...

Animals were every bit as heroic as the first human astronauts By Jeffrey Kluger Animals have long been the science community’s shock troops—the first to hit the beaches when a new frontier of ...

Billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos is ready to send another group of passengers into space, and a Warped Tour alum is going to be onboard. What happens when you can buy anything you want on Earth?

Two months ago, Sally Ride was literally in the clouds as the first American woman in space, but ever since she and the crew from the Space shuttle Challenger touched down, Sally Ride has been ...

NASA and other space agencies put animals in space long before humans, using monkeys, dogs, and cats to figure out how humans could survive leaving Earth. Countries including the US, the USSR ...