A unique mission called Fram2, paid for and led by a cryptocurrency billionaire who is flying with three guests, lifted off, carrying the crew into an orbit around the North and South poles. Follow ...

The IGY, they decided, would be celebrated in 1957.As part of the IGY, the Soviet Union vowed that it would launch an ...

One of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsules was named “Endurance” by NASA astronauts as a nod to ... On most SpaceX flights for astronauts, the nose cone would swing open to reveal docking hardware ...

Off Formosa, aboard the tracking ship Coastal Sentry tense NASA ... Agena’s nose, close enough for them to read a small, lighted instrument panel over the target craft’s docking cone.

Lauren Sánchez, the journalist and author who organized the flight (she's also fiancee of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos), ...

Two NASA rockets launched into auroras over Alaska last week to study the impact that these geomagnetic light shows have on Earth's upper atmosphere, and the results were gorgeous. The experiment ...

A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The ...

NASA is rolling out a “weekly accomplishments app” for agency workers to track their productivity, a step toward complying with one of Elon Musk’s government-efficiency demands. “Today, we ...

Even today, NASA and companies like SpaceX frequently launch their rockets from the launch sites in Cape Canaveral, Florida. What is it about the sunny state that has made it NASA's preferred ...