Air and Space

Long before we knew them as actresses and prominent public figures, these six women got their start by serving in the Armed Forces.

After a quiet few months at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a second round of satellites for its global internet network this morning. Sixty tightly-packed Starlink satellites blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on time at 9:56 a.m.

Earthlings get treated to just 13 or 14 Mercury transits a century.

Astronomers and sky watchers will be ready for a rare celestial event taking place Monday, November 11th. That's when Mercury, our innermost planet, passes directly between Earth and the sun.  

A pilot was killed in a single-engine plane crash Thursday after it collided into a home in the Upland area, the San Bernardino County Fire Department confirmed. 

An asteroid slightly smaller than the largest structure in the U.S. is slated to harmlessly zoom past Earth later this month.

As NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover continues to venture along the vast landscape of the red planet, a series of unsettling photographs was recently sent back to Earth, capturing a truly eerie and lonely landscape. 

The red wine will age for a year up there before returning to Earth. Researchers will study how weightlessness and space radiation affect the aging process. The goal is to develop new flavors and properties for the food industry.

During Monday's test, Boeing counted down to zero, then the Starliner's launch abort engines fired. The capsule soared nearly a mile, then parachuted back into the New Mexico desert. The entire flight lasted one-and-a-half minutes.

NASA said the image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and is the result of a head-on collision between two galaxies.

Tom DeLonge's technological research organization, which focuses heavily on UFOs and extraterrestrials, signed a contract with the U.S. Army to form a research and development partnership for “enhanced capabilities for Army ground vehicles.”

The world's first female spacewalking team is making history high above Earth.

Gilbert V. Levin, principal investigator on NASA Viking missions to Mars in the 1970s, says he’s convinced life was discovered on the red planet nearly four decades ago.

Alexei Leonov, the legendary Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to walk in space 54 years ago — and who nearly didn't make it back into his space capsule — has died in Moscow at 85.

NASA is showing off its new design of spacesuits.