Forty years ago, I was at Mission Control at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for the launch of the Challenger. I was working in data communications. My job was to ensure all telemetry links between ...

Russia’s once-dominant human spaceflight program has been shaken by a self-inflicted disaster on the steppe and a failed ...

It was another catastrophic year for weather disasters in the United States. The LA wildfires in January 2025 ‒ at $61.2 billion, the costliest fire outbreak in US history ‒ helped push the nation's ...

There were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the United States last year, adding up to a total of $115 billion in damages, according to a new report from the climate research ...

Tehran/MoscowcTypeface:> Iran on Sunday launched three satellites into orbit with the help of Russia. A Soyuz rocket carrying the Iranian satellites Kosar, Paya and Zafar 2 blasted off from the ...

WAYLAND, Ky. — Mayor Jerry Fultz steps out of his car and stands at the foot of the last road before the creek, where the specter of flooding is reshaping his hometown. A dog trots through fresh ...

Russia and Kazakhstan have delayed the debut of their joint Baiterek space project, pushing back the Russian Soyuz-5 rocket launch. Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, said it will announce a new launch ...

President Trump has denied disaster aid to the state of Colorado in the wake of wildfires and flooding. The office of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced the denial in a Sunday statement. He ...

Gov. Jared Polis and Colorado’s U.S. senators decried the Trump administration’s denial of emergency recovery funds for the state and promised to fight a decision they called “political games.” ...

What happens when the most ambitious engineering project in human history faces a crisis that threatens its very existence? The International Space Station (ISS), a marvel of global collaboration and ...