Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

Since the dawn of the space age, human exploration beyond Earth's atmosphere has served as the definitive showcase for ...

“We lack a unifying ‘space race’ narrative to galvanize action,” he noted, despite mounting threats that should be impossible to ignore. The original Sputnik moment in 1957 shocked the ...

When the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, it marked a leap forward in space technology, triggering a “space race” with the American space program. Source: Alexandra_Koch/Pixabay ...

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

Hello, Reader. 1 part 1940s Manhattan Project 1 part 1960s Space Race Those are the ingredients to the current worldwide race ...

There are multiple factors driving the excitement and scientific investment in space travel — our innate urge to know the ...

The Cold War, a decades-long geopolitical standoff between United States and the Soviet Union, is one of the most defining ...

From unbelievable images captured in space to predictions of asteroids colliding with Earth, we've researched a variety of claims related to NASA.