This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Art Cotterell is Research Associate at the School of ...

Online exhibition describing the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union and its importance in the Cold War. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.1 ...

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have both celebrated space victories, but they’ve also faced setbacks. (Musk at left: GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota, 2020. Bezos at right: Blue Origin Photo, 2021) Jeff Bezos’ ...

In the early morning hours of February 19, 2025, a bright object streaked through the skies above western Europe. The mysterious, flaming hunk of metal traveled for several hours before smashing into ...

“One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.” History was made when Neil Armstrong stepped out of the Lunar Module on the Apollo 11 mission and became the first human being ever to set foot on ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Space may be the final frontier, but the modern race to launch rockets and satellites at an unsurpassed rate has generated a large and rapidly ...

On the lunar surface, every “night” lasts roughly 14 Earth days. With the sun out of view, temperatures plunge to nearly minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit, solar panels stop generating power, batteries ...

Iran has joined the space race alongside the U.S., China, and Russia as the country launched the first privately developed satellites into space, marking its entrance into the world of space ...

On 2:03 a.m. Thursday morning, the new space race began in earnest. This time it’s not USA vs the Soviets, but a home-grown billionaire vs billionaire face-off. Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in ...

The space race between the United States and China is intensifying, with both countries conducting rocket activities in their contest for dominance outside Earth's atmosphere. On August 12, the U.S.

As the International Space Station nears retirement, a bipartisan senatorial group proposed a National Institute for Space Research for U.S. microgravity research. When you purchase through links on ...