On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big ...

NASA launched a spacecraft to Venus. The mission was called Pioneer-Venus 1, but it’s also known as the Pioneer Venus Orbiter ...

In The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton wrote about killer alien space crystals that are (spoiler alert) ultimately stymied by Earth’s breadth of pH values. In reality, crystals grown in space could ...

Space tourists are participants in a crafted, symbolic journey that reflects how commercial spaceflight is redefining what it ...

My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far ...

Starfish Space is getting ready for a second test mission aimed at having its Otter Pup spacecraft dock with another ...

Satellite servicing company Starfish Space is ready to launch its second mission, a spacecraft that will attempt to dock with another spacecraft.