A Korean disaster-monitoring satellite wasn't able to get off the ground Wednesday (Dec. 10) after all. An Electron rocket ...

Takeshi Nikawa is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Physiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, and chief director of the Institute ...

A monster rocket that collapsed in a firestorm, a launchpad packed with officials as everything went wrong, and experimental ...

The story of Laika, the first dog in space, feels like the beginning of an inspirational biopic. She began as a stray in Moscow and was lovingly given the name Kudryavka(Russian for "little curly one" ...

The Boeing Starliner faced a critical situation during its approach to the International Space Station (ISS), where multiple thruster failures brought it within minutes o losing full control and ...

With satellite mega-constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink deploying thousands of spacecraft, monitoring their health has become an enormous challenge. Traditional methods can’t easily scale to handle ...

The six days leading to today are among the darkest in the history of NASA and manned space exploration. Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On Feb. 1, 2003, ...

Editor's Note: This article was modified October 17, 2025. What began as a pilot program has evolved into an emerging technology investment for disaster management and preparedness in nations with ...

Introduction -- Fire onboard: Apollo 1 -- Death in a fireball: Soyuz 1 -- Nerves like wire rope: Gemini 6A -- Emergency landing in the Pacific: Gemini 8 -- Death at supersonic speed: X-15 -- Odyssey ...