On Oct. 17, 2016, Orbital ATK returned to flight and successfully launched a cargo shipment to the International Space Station. The private spaceflight company was contracted by NASA to fly cargo to ...

As one half of the International Gemini Observatory, the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii provides astronomers with a window into the distant universe, from growing stars to evolving galaxies. Its ...

When NASA announced that private space company Axiom Space was awarded the task of building the next-generation spacesuit for the Artemis III mission, not many realized the level of difficulty in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites successfully launched Sunday afternoon from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Falcon 9 rocket sent ...

In September 1943, the Italian battleship Roma was steaming toward Malta to surrender to the Allies when a pair of German Dornier Do 217 bombers appeared overhead. The planes released two Fritz X ...

Science and maintenance work continued this week aboard the International Space Station (ISS), but updates regarding those activities are still all but halted by the U.S. government shutdown. Japanese ...

US astronaut, doctor and engineer Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to go into space in 1992. She was one of seven crew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, on a mission named STS-47. A ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

Fisher’s space dreams began when she was a 12-year-old “army brat”. Born Anna Tingle and raised on military bases across the US, she was living in Kentucky when she heard the 1961 radio broadcast of ...