There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn ...

On this day 39 years ago, all eyes were on the sky when the Challenger spacecraft exploded shortly after it launched.

On Oct. 29, 1998, space shuttle Discovery carried 77-year-old John Glenn, the oldest shuttle astronaut, back into space. Glenn, an original Mercury 7 astronaut and the first American to orbit ...

The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national ...

Blue Origin made two adjustments in quick succession to its schedule for launching its New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is meant to shuttle cargo, satellites, and, in the future, people into space. The New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to enter the Earth ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch ... which is 50 percent more than NASA’s space shuttle could carry. The road to space hasn’t always run smooth.

Named after John Glenn, the first American to reach orbit ... New Glenn is smaller than SpaceX’s Starship but larger than the space shuttle. Credit: Jurgenspacerocket/Wikimedia Commons, CC ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Named New Glenn after legendary astronaut John Glenn ... on the STS-95 Discovery shuttle flight at the age of 77, making him the oldest human to venture into space. The launch is a critical ...