Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity could lead to more accidents in space missions, experts say.

According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...

Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks ...

The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ...

Sounding rockets launched from the Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, Alaska, lit up the night sky for miles ...

Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical ...

Two NASA sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks early Tuesday morning in a mission aimed ...

Much of the rocket’s success is thanks to a nearly two ... More liberal states are home to many of the science-focused centers, like JPL and Maryland’s Goddard Space Flight Center, which runs the ...

"EZIE is the first mission dedicated exclusively to studying the electrojets," Larry Kepko, an EZIE mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said in a statement. "It does ...