On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid to travel into space, marking a critical milestone in ...

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff while carrying seven people, including "Teacher in Space" participant Christa McAuliffe. Nobody survived the launch on Jan. 28, 1986 from NASA's Kennedy ...

NASA has long captured the imagination of humanity with its ambitions. We reached the moon, built space stations, placed telescopes in orbit, and unlocked the secrets of the universe with NASA's ...

Space exploration has always been a costly endeavor, with missions requiring vast resources, cutting-edge technology, and years of research and development. The National Aeronautics and Space ...

Voshkod 1 kicked off the second series of manned Soviet spaceflights, following the Vostok missions that had been the first to put humans in space. When the craft launched on Oct. 12, 1964, for its ...

Space exploration has always carried extreme risk, and some pioneers paid for progress with their lives. While only a handful of people have died beyond Earth’s atmosphere, many more were lost during ...

Time to suit up!

Jan. 27 is a dark day in the world of space exploration. It’s the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three NASA ...

Humanity is entering one of the most active eras of space missions ever recorded. From deep-space probes studying ancient cosmic history to robotic explorers targeting moons, asteroids, and Mars, 2025 ...