International Space Station Welcomes Its First Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary America’s most experienced astronaut, Peggy Whitson, is the commander of the visiting crew. She works for Axiom Space, the...
White House Asked Joint Chiefs Chairman for Candidates to Lead NASA, Worrying Experts The White House made the unusual move of reaching out to Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for advice on...
Elon Musk Pulls Back on Threat to Withdraw Dragon Spacecraft SpaceX is the only U.S. company capable right now of transporting crews to and from the space station, using its four-person...
Space: The Final Frontier for Federal Service Albert Gonzales has an office job, but it isn't much like the ones you're probably familiar with: Instead of a cubicle...
Billionaire Spacewalker Highlights Mars Trip for Astronauts in His Bid to Become NASA's Next Chief The nominee for NASA’s top job, billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman, outlined his vision for space exploration that...
Trump Administration Halts Dozens of Research Grants at Princeton University Princeton was notified this week that several dozen federal grants are being suspended by agencies including the Department...
Who Else Has Been Stuck in Space? A Short History of Long Spaceflights NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls...
First Space Force Guardian Launched into Space Returns with Stranded Astronauts As the commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission, Col. Nick Hague traveled 72,553,920 miles, spent 171 days in space, and...
NASA's Newest Space Telescope Blasts Off to Map the Entire Sky and Millions of Galaxies NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of...
NASA's 2 Stuck Astronauts Are Finally Closing in on Their Return to Earth After 9 Months in Space NASA’s two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in space.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
