The crew for the space shuttle Challenger flight 51-L leaves their quarters for the launch pad, Jan. 27, 1986, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Front to back are Commander Francis Scobee, ...

Forty years later, the chilly winter morning is one I can never forget, nor can I forget the seven astronauts who would not live another day. As a boomer born in the year of Sputnik, I was fascinated ...

Bulgarian authorities have released the owner of a ship that carried the ammonium nitrate linked to the 2020 Beirut Port explosion, in a major setback to Lebanon's probe into the matter. Lebanese ...

Elon Musk discussed his views on whether aliens exist during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Newsweek reached out to Musk’s company SpaceX for additional comment via ...

Multiple countries have attempted modern moon landings — and many of them have failed. This isn’t because technology has regressed, but because the Moon is far more unpredictable than most people ...