The spacecraft, stuck in orbit since 1972 after an unsuccessful mission to Venus, plunged into the Indian Ocean.

"He [Bowie] had always fantasized about flying in space ... for him it was just like a gift," said Hadfield of his "Space Oddity" video.

A spacefaring people needs more than rockets and stations. No civilization has ever been built on technical capability alone.

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

Although we have been living in the space age for more than half a century, flights to Earth’s orbit are still rare. In the entire history of such flights, less than 600 people have visited space. Of ...

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

A little over 240 years ago, birds were the only things that could fly above the ground untethered without eventually falling ...

Amid Blue Origin's space flight mayhem, meet some of the most famous female astronauts who journeyed and contributed to space science.

One month earlier on April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space when he orbited Earth at an altitude of 187 miles aboard Vostok 1. "Sixty-four years ...