Russia's space program has taken a drubbing in recent years, its reputation battered by corruption scandals, shrinking ...

Live updates from Tuesday's SpaceX NROL-77 national security mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral ...

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union unveiled the Buran, a massive space shuttle built to rival NASA’s own. With an almost identical design but unique capabilities, it became a Cold War symbol of ambition ...

The An-225 was just the beginning. The engineers had big plans for the aircraft, and by big, we mean huge. Meet the An-325 and its bigger brother, the Antonov AKS. They were templates for a new soviet ...

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A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

Three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their shuttle was used to cart another group back to Earth, leaving them in the dust. Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang, all with the ...

Blue Origin successfully landed its New Glenn rocket booster on a seafaring barge, a feat previously only accomplished by SpaceX. The 188-foot-tall booster, named "Never Tell Me the Odds," returned to ...

The under-construction Arts Landing project, taking shape in the heart of Pittsburgh's Cultural District, was available to tour on Monday. The project is expected to transform the area into a green ...

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Contrary to appearances, the vehicle that looked like a little space shuttle was not broken down when it was being hauled down the runway at Kennedy Space Center. Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser ...

For decades—yes, literally decades—it has been easy to dismiss Blue Origin as a company brimming with potential but rarely producing much of consequence. But last week the company took a tremendous ...