HUNTSVILLE — The idea that if you build it, people will come, is not exclusive to Iowa cornfields. It is also true of North Alabama cotton fields. As Cummings Research […]

HUNTSVILLE — While NASA prepares Artemis I for its initial launch, the space agency reached a milestone toward enhancing the Space Launch System  rocket for deep space missions. Managers convened […]

HOLLYWOOD – It began in August 2021 with Huntsville’s CFD Research opening a 13,125 square-foot test and evaluation facility on about 10 acres of land in Jackson County Industrial Park. […]

HUNTSVILLE – Regardless of whether you are a long-time Huntsville resident or a newcomer, it is impossible not to drive by the iconic Saturn V tower at the U.S. Space […]

FLORENCE — If you miss Tuesday’s total lunar eclipse, you’ll have to wait until March 2025 to catch the next one. However, the University of North Alabama Planetarium is here […]

HUNTSVILLE — Blue Origin has delivered two rocket engines to United Launch Alliance’s factory in Decatur that will be used in 2023 for the first launch of ULA’s next-generation Vulcan […]

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Teams are on track to roll the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B, NASA announced. […]

HUNTSVILLE – Several space industry leaders and academics were honored at the annual  Wernher von Braun Memorial Dinner, respectfully dubbed “The Space Prom.” This year’s sold-out event welcomed local businesses […]

HUNTSVILLE — There was a whole lot of shaking going on Saturday morning as the Marshall Space Flight Center’s original administrative headquarters known as Building 4200 was imploded in a […]

DECATUR — United Launch Alliance (ULA), which already has the world’s largest rocket plant here in Morgan County, is expanding its operations even more. ULA held a ground-breaking ceremony Thursday […]

HUNTSVILLE — In February, NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observed its first accreting neutron star: Hercules X-1, more than 21,000 light years from Earth. Now a new study based […]

HUNTSVILLE — For more than six decades, NASA and the nation have relied on the  Marshall Space Flight Center to deliver its most vital propulsion systems and hardware, flagship launch vehicles, […]

Earlier this year, during the International Space Station Research & Development Conference, I had the great opportunity to unveil my space vision for the rest of the 21st century. Outlining […]

HUNTSVILLE — The National Space Club Huntsville and Jacobs are hosting close to 300 fifth-grade students for National Space Club Day at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center today. The […]

HUNTSVILLE – The discovery of a so-called monster black hole that has about 12 times the mass of the sun is detailed in a new Astrophysical Journal research submission, authored […]

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4  splashed down Friday off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. The international […]

DECATUR — The 256 area code will expand into space next year with the launch of the Vulcan Centaur rocket. The next-generation rocket, powered by Huntsville-built Blue Origin motors and […]

HOUSTON — After a day’s delay due to unfavorable weather, NASA and SpaceX are planning to return the Crew-4 mission to Earth today from the International Space Station. The undocking […]

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — In the midnight hour next month, the skies around the Kennedy Space Center will light up. After inspections and repairs of the Space Launch System […]

WASHINGTON — It’s not quite the drama of the movie “Armageddon,” but a NASA spacecraft intentionally changed the orbit of a celestial object. Analysis of data obtained over the past […]

HUNTSVILLE  – A proposed space mission involving the University of Alabama in Huntsville has been selected by NASA for the second time as part of a group of four for […]

HUNTSVILLE – The Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center are offering a chance to see the moon like you may not have ever seen it. […]

HUNTSVILLE – The awards just keep coming for the nuclear thermal propulsion research  at the University of Alabama in Huntsville by Saroj Kumar. Kumar is a doctoral candidate in the […]

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center have been working this week to prepare the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for November’s Artemis I […]