Columbia mission commander Rick Husband is most often spoken of in the context of his death alongside his fellow astronauts in 2003. However, he is remembered by his hometown of Amarillo as a ...

Though NASA has a robust culture of safety, tragedy has occasionally struck. Three astronauts were killed during training for ...

Braving retaliation, thousands of federal workers across six agencies have signed open letters charging that their workplaces are being hamstrung or dismantled by the Trump administration. They join ...

US former NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham, 60, who waited for nearly 20 years ahead of her 2006 space mission, says space tourists may be able to weekend in orbit in just five years' time.

IMAP mission will explore our solar system's protective heliosphere and will also help us develop a better understanding of ...

A group of gold commemorative coins that traveled into orbit aboard an infamous NASA space shuttle recently fetched a series ... dollars made the cosmic journey in 1999 aboard shuttle Columbia, the ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

Take Charge Tom will look to add the title of graded stakes winner to his resume for owner/breeder Randy Howg when he starts in the CA$200,000 Canadian Derby (G3) Aug. 23, the featured race on the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Columbia Police are investigating reports of human remains found around 4 p.m. on Thursday. The Columbia Police Department said the remains were found in a wooded area near ...

The groundbreaking discovery points to the possibility of past life on Mars. A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They stressed that in-depth analysis ...

The Apollo 1 disaster remains one of the most haunting tragedies in space exploration. This short documentary uncovers how a routine test ended in disaster, claiming the lives of three astronauts and ...