On May 11, 2009, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on the fifth and final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. During mission STS-125, astronauts installed two new instruments on the ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

Many in the media used the term “stranded” to describe the pair while they lived and worked on the ISS as part of Expedition 72. However, Butch and Suni were not the only astronauts to be coined with ...

In this week’s episode of Space ... The shuttle was a great pickup truck, and that’s basically what was built to be a pickup truck to take things from earth to low Earth orbit and then bring ...

Floridians looking for an out-of-this-world experience have an abundance of opportunities to take a journey to another ...

On May 7, 1992, Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on the STS-49 ... INTELSAT VI had been stranded in the wrong orbit and the mission of STS-49 was to attach a rocket motor to the satellite that ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus. Russia says it landed ...

As an aerospace engineering professor, I study how drag affects the movement of spacecraft in orbit. Aerobraking, as the name suggests, is a type of maneuver that uses the thin air in space to ...

SpaceX sent another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast this morning (May 10), its ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...