However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying a series of harrowing missions during which it seems a ...

The new book "Gemini and Mercury Remastered" features iconic images from the earliest days of human space exploration ...

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a freelance science journalist. Her beats ...

A rare August morning alignment brings Mercury, a thin crescent moon and the Beehive Cluster together in the predawn sky.

Scotland could miss out on a “generational opportunity” to become a leader in the European space launch field, MPs have warned. A Westminster committee says fierce international competition and a lack ...