Starship's seventh test ended in failure less than 10 minutes after leaving its Texas launchpad. The 400-foot spacecraft ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

NASA elected to grab key components from the Redstone and Jupiter rockets, combining multiple fuel tank designs together to ...

This January, NHPR marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle disaster with a multi-part series honoring the life, ...

The Apollo 13 mission in 1969 saw Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise take off from earth on course for the moon. However ...

The Apollo 13 mission in 1969, featuring Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, was fraught with peril, a story brought to ...

With plans to launch the massive Starship from Florida next year, SpaceX defended its commitment to airspace safety after a ...

A year-end recap of 2025 in space, covering NASA leadership changes, space policy, major missions, scientific discoveries and key events across orbit and beyond.

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

An Ocean County school district has agreed to sell the middle school named for astronaut Christa McAuliffe that permanently closed in June, officials said.

A gas explosion and fire at a home near Hayward and Interstate Highway 238 on Thursday morning injured multiple people and destroyed or damaged at least three structures, authorities said. The ...