Stacey Vanek-Smith: NASA’s top space contractor is slashing its workforce. The agency is shifting away from using shuttles in space travel, and now Houston-based United Space Alliance says it’s laying ...

To ensure the future of spaceflight, NASA must stop building rockets. That counterintuitive notion is borne out by the agency’s sad post-Apollo history. For the past 50 years, America’s dreams of ...

For the first time ever, NASA has agreed to allow a group of citizen scientists to contact and try to take control of a '70s-era spacecraft that has been moving through its orbit with no scientific ...

You don’t have to live in the path of totality to experience the stellar 2024 total solar eclipse. On April 8, NASA will broadcast a livestream of the eclipse as it crosses North America — starting in ...

At 15, Wikipedia is finally finding its way to the truth Today, Wikipedia celebrates its fifteenth birthday. In Internet years, that's pretty old. But "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit" is ...

NASA today has ceded quite a bit of its low-orbit space travel to companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX. But the only reason these companies can operate the way that they do, where anyone with the ...

OK Go (those guys from the treadmill video) employed a bunch of engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create this delightfully complicated Rube Goldberg machine music video. It’s a ...