Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

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A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Ohio native Judith Resnik was a mission specialist on the doomed Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded shortly after ...

Research shows Americans are increasingly fretting about disasters — and even the end times. Hiding in a cave might actually ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

After a two-year gap, there will be two total solar eclipses within 12 months of each other, on Aug. 12, 2026, and Aug. 2, ...

In just over an hour and a half on Sunday morning, Alex Honnold stood atop Taiwan’s tallest building, Taipei 101, having ...

The Rancher’s Plate acknowledges Montana’s agricultural heritage by offering a protein-packed combination of bacon, sausage ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...

The second Trump term is fundamentally rewriting the rules of discovery through data purges and budget blocks. This is the ...