Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Orbital, which features six astronauts on a space station, is about perception, about the idea of ‘big’ and ‘small’, ‘reality’ and ‘illusion’ and about taking a hard ...

On Nov. 11, 1921, U.S. President Warren Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia ...

The new podcast 16 Sunsets opens with archive audio from Nasa’s mission control in 1981, in the build-up to the first flight ...

And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...

Which brings us to Chiaki Mukai and outer space. With her 1994 flight aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia she became Japan’s ...

In 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart in the skies above America. Astronauts' families and NASA staff share personal ...

This claim was, in fact, true. McCandless was, indeed, the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on Feb. 7, 1984 ...

The space station is getting closer to retirement, and it's still in need of a deorbiting vehicle to lower it to its fiery ...

A SpaceX Dragon capsule packed with cargo took flight atop a Falcon 9 rocket Monday night, ferrying innovative experiments ...

Three NASA astronauts are speaking at a news conference after spending more than seven months in space aboard the International Space Station.

The long-awaited inaugural cargo flight of Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has been delayed to no earlier than May 2025, pushing back a launch previously expected ...