Fantastical conflicts in outer space were a staple of popular culture in the 1980s. Yet one battle that reached into the ...

Space shuttle Atlantis is circling Earth in pursuit of the International Space Station. Atlantis and its crew of six will hook up with the space station Wednesday. In the meantime, the astronauts will ...

Explore the detailed process of launching the Space Shuttle into orbit around the Earth, primarily conducted at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved.

It won't have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft—which looks like a miniature space shuttle—back for a long-duration mission to orbit during a ...

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which looks like a miniature space shuttle — back for a long-duration mission to orbit during a late ...

The ISS feels impossibly far at 250 miles up, but lunar missions go 240,000 miles out - over 1000x the distance. It's a ...