Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a ...

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 ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

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

In the 1990s, NASA and Lockheed Skunk Works chased a fully reusable space shuttle replacement with the X-33 and VentureStar, promising radically cheaper access to orbit. This deep dive follows the ...

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 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 ...

Houston, we have a list of great museums where you can learn about outer space, from science to history. Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra ...