Is it a meteor shower? Space debris? No, it's something much, much worse. Our nearest neighbor is a full Moon no more. The Moon exploded and splintered into millions of fragments. Enormous lunar rocks ...

Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in ...

Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing space dust floating around it. Maybe broken-off parts of the moon are raining down ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

“Then the explosion, a vivid memory I will never forget. A lot of us pulled off onto the berm and listened intently to the ...

Akron schoolgirl, a whiz in math and science, grew up to become a brilliant engineer, a pioneer astronaut and the second ...

Everyone wants SpaceX exposure. Problem is, you can’t buy it. While retail investors fantasize about Starlink and Mars colonization, the real money is being made in unglamorous infrastructure powering ...

A major flare-up affected an aircraft’s data and control; the solution was so easy that it almost makes no sense.

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

A Houston-area Catholic school science teacher said the Challenger disaster remains one of the most defining moments of her early understanding of science and human exploration, shaping both her ...

Ad astra per aspera” is an ancient Latin phrase meaning “to the stars through hardships.” Forty years ago, the harrowing hardships of questing for the stars were seen in cold Florida skies when the ...