Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

The Sands Space History Center at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station has reopened after renovations funded largely by Jared ...

Sixty-two years ago today, on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture beyond Earth’s atmosphere into space. The achievement rocked the world, not only ...

Plans to demolish a historic baseball stadium where Babe Ruth played and an adjacent rugby venue are at the heart of a ...

While many animals have been used in space research, only one cat has made it into space. Stock image: A grey cat. In the 1940s, some cats were used by the U.S. Air Force as part of spaceflight ...

The private space race launched 20 years ago with a simple and elegant piece of aerospace engineering. Here's to Virgin Galactic and Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne!

Ahead of International Day of Human Space Flight, let’s take a look at some key moments in the history of space exploration. The Sputnik 1 satellite became the first man-made object to leave the ...

Yuri Gagarin: first human being to journey into outer space It was 50 years ago that man first ventured into space. On April 12, 1961, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth in Vostok 1 ...

Cathleen S. Lewis, a curator in the space history department at the National Air and Space Museum, has written Cosmonaut: A Cultural History, which documents the complicated past of Soviet and ...

Dave Kindy writes about aviation, space, military history, and other topics.His article about the record-setting altitude exploits of Joseph Kittinger and Project Excelsior appeared in the Summer ...

One Giant Leap After Another: Purdue’s Space Timeline. Purdue has played a pivotal role in shaping the future of space exploration. Take a journey through the university’s history, tracing the ...