The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

Tuesday night's rocket crash at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility was a prominent setback for Orbital Sciences Corp. amid a string of successes. NASA mission control in Houston, Texas, called the ...

China’s push to match the world’s leading space powers took a dramatic turn when its first orbital-class reusable rocket reached space, then broke apart in a fiery crash during its attempted return.

Beijing (CNN) — A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday – the first such trial by a ...

NASA's cargo resupply program makes up over a fifth of Orbital Sciences' sales, and the blast could hurt profit by $6 billion, according to analysts. Fred Katayama reports. Advertisement Advertisement ...