The prime crew for the first manned flight of Project Apollo died in a flash fire inside the three-man spacecraft atop its ...

By 1967, NASA had wrapped up the Mercury and Gemini programs and was preparing for the launch of the first Apollo-series spacecraft.

Find out about the main events that have taken place on this day over the years.

A massive oil rig that tipped over and crashed to the tundra near the North Slope village of Nuiqsut on Friday was part of an ...

The first piloted Apollo flight – called Apollo 204, though it would later be known as Apollo 1 – was intended for tests in Earth orbit, part of the eventual path to later Apollo missions going to the ...

The partnership between Lantronix and Safe Pro Group reflects a broader transformation in how intelligence, security and autonomy converge at the edge. As defense and autonomous systems evolve, the ...

Scientists are using earthquake sensors to track space debris falling to Earth, by detecting sonic booms from re-entering ...

Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He's just one of four living moonwalkers and the oldest remaining astronaut still making trips around the sun.

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

On the annual Day of Remembrance, "Apollo 1," a film that highlights a NASA tragedy during the race to the moon, was ...

Richard “Dick” F. Gordon Jr. was born in Seattle on Oct. 5, 1929. He graduated from UW with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1951. By graduation, Gordon had not yet set his sights on being one out ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...