Space-industry officials say this year could be one of the more important in recent memory because of the need to execute on planned major projects. The year will be marked by the Florida coming-out party of Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin, which recently completed a massive 750,000-square-foot...
NASA released an updated timetable for its Commercial Crew Program with manned missions from Cape Canaveral from Boeing and SpaceX now both targeted for the end of the year. “The next generation of American spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts to the International Space Station are...
Lawmakers said they will receive classified briefings on a secret U.S. government satellite that apparently crashed into the sea after it was launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. “The first statement by SpaceX was that the failure to achieve orbit was not theirs,” so there’s no reason so far to question...
The wait has been years, but SpaceX’s giant Falcon Heavy rocket is poised for its first launch from Kennedy Space Center. While no official launch date has been set, the company had announced that it was targeting late January, and is expected to perform a test fire of its 27 engines by the end...
SpaceX has launched a secret satellite codenamed Zuma on its first flight of the new year. The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday night, carrying the satellite toward an undisclosed orbit. SpaceX ended launch commentary five minutes into the flight, due to...
Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, according to a statement from NASA. Young was 87. The space agency said in a statement that Young died Friday night following complications from pneumonia. NASA said Young was the...
As John Young readied for launch of Gemini 3 in March of 1965, he displayed a calm that would become one of his best-known characteristics. Biometric data showed his heartbeat was normal, according to Bob Sieck, whose job was to monitor astronauts’ heart rates, among other things. “His calmness...
For more than a decade, researchers trying to make sense of the mysterious degenerative brain disease afflicting football players and other contact-sport athletes have focused on the threat posed by concussions. But new research suggests that attention was misguided. Instead of concerning themselves...
Even without the help of El Niño, 2017 was a top-three scorcher for planet Earth. Global temperatures last year were the third-highest since scientists began keeping records in 1880, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Measurements from NASA placed it even...
Earth's average temperature has been rising for the past 137 years. (Credit: NASA/GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio)
SpaceX on Thursday evening pushed back the expected launch of a secret spy satellite to Sunday. It’s the latest in a series of delays that has seen the mission date quickly go from mid-November to early January. In a 6:25 p.m. Twitter post on Thursday, SpaceX officials announced that its team had...
A launch this week of a closely guarded payload by SpaceX will mark the first 2018 mission for the Elon Musk-led space company, as well as its return to military defense contracts. Space industry experts say the company’s expected launch of the so-called Zuma payload marks the start of what should...
Josh Colwell has experienced rocket launches differently than most others. Sure, he says, he “enjoys the spectacle” that comes with a powerful rocket taking off from a Space Coast launch pad. But in 2014, when he sent an experiment into space aboard a SpaceX rocket, Colwell couldn’t help but be...
Congress sped toward reopening the government Monday, as Senate Democrats dropped their objections to a temporary funding bill in return for assurances from Republicans leaders that they will soon take up immigration and other contentious issues. Senate Republican leader McConnell's commitment...
Lukasz Niec was 5 years old when his parents brought him and his sister to the United States from Poland. With two suitcases in tow, his parents — both doctors — left behind a country on the verge of social turmoil. It was 1979, about two years before the country's authoritarian communist government...
Three key leaders at USA Gymnastics resigned Monday as more women and girls told a judge about being sexually assaulted at the hands of a sports doctor who spent years with Olympic gymnasts and other female athletes.The resignations of chairman Paul Parilla, vice chairman Jay Binder and treasurer...