Solar flares, massive energetic explosions that rise up from the Sun, can damage man-made satellites and pose a radiation hazard to astronauts.

SpaceX engineers are investigating the cause of Saturday’s failed flight of the Falcon 1, a low-cost, light-lift rocket developed by the Southern California-based...

Ror the first time in Europe, historians, philosophers and sociologists are banding together with space scientists to share their thoughts and ideas on how humankind will be taking our first steps in Outer...

Virgin Galactic is giving the world a glimpse of its secret space tourism program.

Aerospace engineers have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich tourists some 62 miles above Earth. Now the wraps come partially off the top-secret...

We’ve heard about the possibility of extraterrestrial life arriving on Earth from another planet, asteroid or comet, but the mode of transport usually includes a chunk of rock falling through the atmosphere as a meteorite. But there could be...

FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been...

On July 20, 1968 Apollo 8 landed on the moon, barely 22 years after mankind had first placed a man- made object in orbit. Unfortunately, the Moon landings were short lived; in December 1972, the Apollo 16 mission was the last time that humans...

The space station’s two Russian astronauts stepped outside for the second time in less than a week Tuesday, taking a spacewalk that promised to be tame compared to last week’s work with explosives.Although Sergei Volkov and Oleg...

If you’re out watching the twilight sky in the time frame from 45 to 90 minutes before sunrise, or 45 to 90 minutes after sunset, you’ll might see a few “moving stars.” They are most likely artificial...