Forty years ago, the first space shuttle mission dedicated to the Department of Defense soared into space. On Wednesday, ...

Blue Origin's NS-29 New Shepard rocket will launch on Jan. 28 at 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GMT) if all goes well. Here's what to ...

The Moon and asteroids are at the top of the mission list for a number of agencies, while others will focus on exploration to ...

Check back for live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch updates on this page, starting about 90 minutes before today’s launch window opens.

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin joined the billionaire’s space race in earnest when its New Glenn rocket roared from a launch pad at ...

IT is hard concentrating on a launch pad – even one about to send a hulking rocket into space – when in the foreground, herons are fishing ...

On Jan. 24, 1985, space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on STS-51C, the first space shuttle mission entirely dedicated to the Department of Defense (DOD).

The loss of space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, and the Apollo 1 fire bring reflection and inspiration for a new future ...

In a letter to his replacement, outgoing NASA leader Bill Nelson emphasizes the agency’s activities ‘transcend the length of ...

"The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part ...