After Challenger reshaped NASA’s risk tolerance, Shuttle-C emerged as a bold plan to replace the orbiter with an uncrewed cargo carrier, using the existing shuttle stack to loft massive payloads for ...

In the 1990s, NASA and Lockheed Skunk Works chased a fully reusable space shuttle replacement with the X-33 and VentureStar, promising radically cheaper access to orbit. This deep dive follows the ...

With plans to launch the massive Starship from Florida next year, SpaceX defended its commitment to airspace safety after a ...

A year-end recap of 2025 in space, covering NASA leadership changes, space policy, major missions, scientific discoveries and key events across orbit and beyond.

An Ocean County school district has agreed to sell the middle school named for astronaut Christa McAuliffe that permanently closed in June, officials said.

The creator of the futuristic Orion capsule, the only spacecraft capable of speeding aeronauts to the Moon, is set to begin ...

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

However, the mission almost ended in disaster and this 1995 blockbuster directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and ...

In 1974, the project’s Science Working Group recommended that the telescope be required to resolve details at least one-tenth ...

This January, NHPR marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle disaster with a multi-part series honoring the life, ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Some of President Donald Trump’s supporters like to compare him to another two-term Republican president — Ronald Reagan. I’ve ...