A family in Houston is counting their lucky stars that no one was hurt after a cantaloupe-size meteorite smashed through the roof of their home and ricocheted around an empty bedroom. The space rock ...

Since 2018, astronomers have detected a series of ultra-bright blue explosions known as LFBOTs, some reaching luminosities up to 100 times greater than typical supernovae. One recent event, nicknamed ...

The SpaceX Starship, the most powerful and advanced super-capsule ever designed on this planet, could spark an explosion in ...

Space Force officials are assessing the aftermath of the massive Blue Origin rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral last week. Here's what we know.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An explosion on Florida's Space Coast last night lit up the sky more than 100 miles away. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos confirmed ...

Debris has been cleared from the massive explosion at Blue Origin’s launch site in Cape Canaveral and the company is now in ...

A sudden, mysterious burst of bright light in the sky could be from a black hole devouring a vast, unusually bare star. In 2018, astronomers spotted a new kind of cosmic explosion that became brighter ...

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its ...

NASA aims to launch its NEO Surveyor asteroid-hunting space telescope in 2027. Credit: NASA COLORADO SPRINGS–Thirteen years ago a 20-m asteroid streaked without warning into Earth’s atmosphere before ...

Sunday Cocktail Corner is a series dedicated to finding just the right libation for the situation. It was a portentous week for the future of American space exploration, there’s no doubt about that.

On June 30, 1908, a giant fireball exploded over the forests of Tunguska in Siberia. The impact leveled hundreds of miles of ...

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.