CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...

On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of ...

There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space ...

An annual safety report to NASA has both praise and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space ...

NASA's Day of Remembrance honours astronauts who died during Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger, and Space Shuttle Columbia missions. Observed on the ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

(Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. expects to lay off hundreds of workers on its SLS moon rocket program, fueling speculation that ...

Following their walks through the moon dust, Apollo astronauts found regolith obscuring their helmet visors, grinding inside joints of their spacesuits, tracking inside their spacecraft and ...

CORRECTION: The Resilience lander and Tenacious rover in the Hakuto Mission 2 were incorrectly identified as being part of a NASA CLPS mission. It is a Japanese-led commercial mission. Astronauts ...

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.