A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane has landed back on Earth ...
In what one industry website calls an "astonishing discovery," a deep space radio signal has reached Earth after 8 ...
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are now expected to return to Earth in February ... have been trapped in space for 80 days and will stay there another six months.
Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be extremely unlucky.
Shortly after the space rock was discovered, astronomers revealed that Apophis would have an extremely close fly-by with Earth on April 13, 2029, sparking fears that it could hit our planet ...
On Sept. 19, 1996, the Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvoused with Russia's Mir space station to deliver supplies and equipment.
A more realistic use for lasers is for deflecting incoming asteroids or as propulsion systems for spacecraft. In a new paper, ...
Rubio, along with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, had to wait another six months in space before a replacement ... senator who remained on Earth during his brother's ...