It has become tradition for the first astronauts to fly on a U.S. commercial crew vehicle to have the honor of naming it. In ...

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bobcat wades through one of the waterways near Launch Pad 39B. The center shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, ...

Scientists have discovered signs of sewage in the water at a beach in southern California in NASA satellite images. In their study, researchers examined a large wastewater plume at the mouth of ...

With airplane wings and rocket power, the space shuttle changed how we reached space. ... The Space Shuttle – NASA’s Reusable Rocket Plane. Posted: June 12, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025.

In 2015, Melbourne-based Harris Corp., which partnered with NASA on space projects for decades, acquired Exelis Inc., a global aerospace company based in McLean, Virginia, in a $4.75 billion deal.

Science News: NASA and ISRO collaborate for Axiom Mission 4, featuring Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla. Scheduled to launch on June 10 from Kennedy Space Center to the International Space ...

NASA and Pentagon officials moved swiftly this past week to urge competitors to Elon Musk’s SpaceX to more quickly develop alternative rockets and spacecraft after President Donald Trump ...

Uber rolled out Smart Routes a decade ago, followed a short time later by the Lyft Shuttle of its biggest competitor. Even Elon Musk gave it a try in 2018 with the “urban loop system” that ...

NASA’s other option: Russia. Russia’s Soyuz capsules are the only other means of getting crews to the space station right now. The Soyuz capsules hold three people at a time. For now, each Soyuz ...