A historic sample return mission is set to blaze across the southern skies on Saturday.

An article published this week by The Daily Beast has been widely criticized for seeming to blame South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for the death of her own grandmother. 

The first attempt in May failed to make orbit. This time the stakes are higher, with (nonhuman) passengers on board.

Earth 'just got' 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. But don't worry, this doesn't mean that our planet is critical. Instead the changes are results of a better model of the Milky Way Galaxy based on new observation data, including a catalog of objects observed over the course of more than 15 years.

Schools in Baltimore will shut down for two days this week — and a ransomware attack, not the coronavirus, is to blame.

is set to send four into low-Earth orbit this weekend as part of its first operational crewed flight to the .