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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!

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 ...

Skylab rescue mission. Skylab was NASA's first space station, and it was launched into orbit after the final Apollo lunar landing in 1972. From May 1973 to February 1974, three different crews ...

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 ...