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When a piece of foam struck Columbia’s wing in 2003, the damage went unnoticed until reentry tore the shuttle apart over Texas. In the months that followed, investigators examined a chilling ...

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At Girard College, a dream that began decades ago is still taking flight. Alumni say the historic North Philadelphia boarding school has long empowered students to create change. One of those change ...

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The contest between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is only going to get more heated now that the two are directly competing for the moon. After years of charting a path to Mars, Musk surprisingly announced ...

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Intuitive Planetarium is the No. 1 planetarium in the country in the 2026 USA TODAY 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards. A panel of USA TODAY editors and subject-matter ...

Families of nine campers and counselors at Camp Mystic who died after destructive flooding swept across Central Texas in 2025 are suing health officials, claiming they failed to enforce an evacuation ...

On Thursday NASA leadership outlined how 2024’s glitch-plagued Boeing Starliner mission jeopardized astronaut welfare and the space agency’s culture of safety and accountability “Starliner has design ...

At a time when the entire American space industry is preparing for the launch of the first crewed mission to the Moon under the Artemis program, NASA found it fit to release the report of findings of ...