Outer space can be dangerous, especially in movies. There have been a variety of disasters that have space origins in film. Sometimes, it’s something from space threatening Earth. Other times, it’s ...

New Zealand is planning a national space mission which could see a small fleet of state-owned satellites launched into the skies over the Pacific nation, a minister told AFP on Wednesday. Golden ...

India will Monday launch the first stage of its domestic satellite navigation network which will eventually provide services both to civilians and the military and is similar to the US Global ...

Space is full of terrifying possibilities, but most cosmic disasters are extremely unlikely to ever reach us. Solar flares are different: they happen often, and under the right conditions, they could ...

Relive the harrowing moments in Launch Control during NASA's second "Return to Flight" test flight after the tragic loss of Space Shuttle Columbia. Go behind the scenes as NASA engineers discover the ...

With satellite mega-constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink deploying thousands of spacecraft, monitoring their health has become an enormous challenge. Traditional methods can’t easily scale to handle ...

The United Nations International Day of Human Space Flight is on April 12. As we look towards settlements on the Moon and Mars, and farther afield, we must plan and prepare for disasters in off-world ...

The tragic launch rehearsal that nearly ended the Apollo Moon Program. The Mir Space Station collision of 1997. The re-entry failure of Space Shuttle Columbia. Each NASA and Soviet space mission is a ...