Is it a meteor shower? Space debris? No, it's something much, much worse. Our nearest neighbor is a full Moon no more. The Moon exploded and splintered into millions of fragments. Enormous lunar rocks ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

New phone designs, coupled with robust holiday spending, continued to lift iPhone sales in the quarter and drove the company to record profits. By Kalley Huang Reporting from San Francisco Apple on ...

A war of words over deeply held beliefs erupted on the political right in the hours after a federal agent shot and killed Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street Saturday, pitting top officials in ...

Pituffik Space Base was established in 1951 as part of a defense treaty between the US and Denmark. Base operations include scientific research, space surveillance, and ballistic missile detection.

On Jan. 28, 1986, the 25th space shuttle mission Challenger left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into flight, Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean as millions of ...

The Trump administration’s plan to take its “America First” agenda global had a rocky start as the president’s sweeping tariff announcements tanked stock markets worldwide. Although the full scope of ...