The space shuttle Atlantis landed at 4:57 a.m. CDT today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles. Now that it's back home, Atlantis won't be ...

The crackle of firecrackers and thump of cannons echoed through the neighborhood last night, the fourth of July. But a whole different kind of fireworks was happening 483 miles overhead — silent but ...

SpaceX launched the eighth and final set of satellites last week, completing the 75 satellite fleet of Iridium's next-generation communication constellation. The rocket’s first stage had been ...