The STS-51L mission clears the tower at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28, 1986. Credit: NASA / Courtesy Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter for ...

December 20, 2025, will be remembered as a turning point in the chronicles of space exploration, forever altering humanity’s view of its own sky. On that day, Michaela 'Michi' Benthaus, an aerospace ...

There’s a very common question asked of people working in space exploration: Why explore space when we have so many problems on Earth? From Wi-Fi to satellite images of real estate, to matters of ...

The star astrophysicist sat down with Newsweek to discuss Mars missions and what truly drives human discovery.

In his 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck wrote of loss, “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than ...

Space exploration has always carried extreme risk, and some pioneers paid for progress with their lives. While only a handful of people have died beyond Earth’s atmosphere, many more were lost during ...

Japan’s national space agency – the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) – was established in 2003, but the history of Japan’s space programs dates all the way back to early developments in ...

The winners of the inaugural Global Space Awards were recently announced at a star-studded ceremony at London's Natural History Museum. The event championed innovation and sustainability, while also ...