Many believed that perhaps the Soviet Union would ultimately triumph in the Space Race to the Moon. But while NASA’s Apollo ...

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 times the strength of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. And although short video ...

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket blew up while the company was testing the spacecraft Sept. 29 at its Texas facility.

The history of space exploration is filled with projects that never came to be in the real world, or projects that, despite being brought very close to production, never actually got to power humanity ...

SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship megarocket on its 11th test flight since April 2023. Here's a recap of all ...

The scene explaining the Rich Purnell Maneuver embodies the tone of the movie. Rich Purnell, an astrophysicist played by Donald Glover, devises a plan to save Watney by having the Hermes accelerate ...

How would you go about answering the question “How many people have ever lived on this planet?” If you type that into Google or an artificial intelligence chatbot, you’ll get an answer pretty ...

SpaceX is preparing for its 11th Starship launch from Starbase, Texas, as Florida residents and officials raise concerns about Space Coast operations.

THREE earthquakes rocked Perthshire within 17 minutes on Monday – with people 50 MILES away feeling the earth move. A 3.3 ...

In Tim Burnham’s 2016 documentary, Dirty Old Wedge, the history, controversy, and glory of Southern California’s premier mutant shorebreak wave is explored. There’s no other spot on earth like The ...

To probe the mysteries of how galaxies evolve over time, scientists needed a supercomputer with out-of-this-world computational power. These black holes—which range up to billions of times the sun's ...

TODAY is Thursday, September 26, the 269th day of 2013. There are 96 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1087 - King William II, son of William the Conqueror, is crowned King of ...