The launch on Monday (Feb. 2, Groundhog Day) began at Space Launch Complex 4 East from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Huygens remains the first and only landing in any location in the outer solar system, the furthest distance from Earth a ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study. The research ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

Four space station fliers undocked and plunged back to Earth, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean early Thursday off the Southern California coast six days after NASA ordered them home early ...

SpaceX has temporarily grounded its Falcon 9 rocket after an upper stage failed to deorbit as planned during a Feb. 2 launch.

Astronauts appear to undergo rapid but temporary biological changes during spaceflight, with some markers linked to ageing shifting noticeably while in orbit and then easing soon after return to Earth ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

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The 1,000-plus publicans who have recently banned Labour MPs from their premises might take small comfort from the fact that the alehouse has been a political backdrop for at least half a millennium.