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October 31, 1938 was the day after Martians encountered planet Earth, and everything was calm. Reports of the invasion were revealed to be part of a Halloween radio drama, the now famous Mercury Theater broadcast based o...

The deadly crash of Virgin Galactic's spacecraft has dealt a devastating setback to the cause of space tourism, delaying the first commercial flights to the stars by years, experts said Friday.

Mars colonization moves forward, pushed by visionaries and pragmatists alike.

Super sunspot AR2192 has produced 10 significant solar flare while traversing the Earth-side of the sun; six X-class and four above M5-class. This active region on the sun - an area of intense and complex magnetic fields...

Alan Eustace jumped from a balloon at an altitude of approximately 41,400 meters.

British tycoon Richard Branson was poised to rally his grieving Virgin Galactic staff in California on Saturday as investigators began probing the spacecraft crash that left one pilot dead and another seriously injured.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has begun its investigation into the deadly crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo on Oct. 31. Here's the latest details on how the investigation will work.

My friend and astronomer Amy Mainzer sent me a funny picture the other day. Amy is the top banana for NASA's NEOWISE mission, which scans the sky, looking for near-Earth asteroids in the far-infrared part of the spectru...

Virgin's pioneering tourist-carrying spacecraft crashed on a test flight in California on Friday, killing a pilot and scattering debris across the desert--and raising questions about the program's future.

China's latest moon mission, which some people are calling Chang'e 5 T1, returned to Earth at around 6 p.m. EDT Friday, ending an eight-day unmanned flight designed to test out technology for a future lunar sample-return...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) started its investigation Nov. 1 of the fatal crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo accident proved what astronauts and their families know too well: Space can be deadly.

On it's fourth powered test flight Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo was lost. The flight had a pilot and co-pilot. One did not survive, while the other was seriously injured. The drama unfolded in real time through social ...

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have made what may be the most reliable distance measurement yet of an object that existed in the Universe's formative years. The galaxy is one of the faintest, small...

Virgin's pioneering tourist-carrying spacecraft crashed on a test flight in California on Friday, killing a pilot and scattering debris across the desert--and raising questions about space tourism's future.

The tragic crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space plane on Friday, Oct. 31, has the commercial spaceflight industry in mourning for the test pilot who died, and praying for the recovery of a second pilot who was i...

Learn more about Virgin Galactic's plan to make space tourism and personal space travel a reality with SpaceShipTwo.

Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides said the company will figure out what went wrong and continue to work to get SpaceShipTwo up and running.

Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Antares rocket exploded on Tuesday just after launching on an unmanned cargo mission to the International Space Station. Then, on Friday, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed during a test flig...

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Hosted payloads have, for several years, offered the promise of more-frequent and less-expensive flight opportunities for government customers and additional revenue streams for commercial satellite operators and manufac...

The component in question is the kill vehicle that tops the interceptors on the GMD system, which failed in three straight intercept tests before finding the bull's-eye in a June demo.