In recent years, private companies have transformed spaceflight from a government-led endeavour into a burgeoning commercial industry. Space tourism, satellite networks, and rapid-launch capabilities ...

The FAA recently approved test flights of the company's reentry vehicles. The risk of spacecraft debris injuring someone on Earth is 1 in 4,200. Researchers suggest a sea change in satellite design to ...

NASA's Van Allen Probe A, a 600-kilogram satellite launched back in 2012, is plummeting back to Earth after 14 years studying the planet's hazardous radiation belts. Amid headlines screaming "NASA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This past weekend, skygazers in the Southern United States were treated to an incredible sight, but it wasn't what they thought it ...

For nearly five years, a Chinese spacecraft has remained in geostationary orbit for unspecified reasons. Virtually nothing was known about the government payload, aside from it being a test of new ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A bright, slow-moving fireball streaked across the southern sky Saturday night shortly after 10 p.m. CST. This fireball left onlookers amazed and confused as to what it was.

A recent lights show appeared over the sky over the weekend and many people thought that it was a meteorite entering a planet, but no, it was later identified to be SpaceX's Starlink internet ...