While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

Sixty years ago, a NASA astronaut’s antics on a spaceflight into low-Earth orbit sparked a national controversy in the U.S.

The world's oldest man who died at the age of 112 last year left ... 56 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in 1969 and 77 when the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 He ...