CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Everything continues to progress toward the first ULA Vulcan flight test and certification mission, officials with United Space Alliance announced. The mission is planned to lift […]

HUNTSVILLE — NASA has achieved a benchmark in developing an innovative propulsion system called the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine. Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville successfully tested […]

WEST TEXAS — Blue Origin completed its 24th New Shepard flight and 13th payload mission today from Launch Site One in West Texas. The flight carried 33 payloads from NASA, academia, […]

FLORENCE — Have you ever gone outside and tried to find the Christmas Star on Christmas night? Is it the brightest star? Which direction should you look? Do you ever […]

HUNTSVILLE – Two researchers from the University of Alabama in Huntsville Earth System Science Center were recently awarded $402,000 from NASA’s 2022 Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science to […]

HUNTSVILLE – McThornmor Acres, named by combining five men who incorporated the neighborhood that at the time became Huntsville’s largest subdivision in west Huntsville, was added to the U.S. Park […]

FLORENCE – The University of North Alabama has been selected to be part of the Alabama Space Grant Consortium, a collaboration that will provide resources and other opportunities for the […]

HUNTSVILLE – Two researchers in the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have won a grant totaling $457,963 to study a process that could ultimately lead to […]

LAS VEGAS — Apparently, Santa Claus may not be the only one flying around South Florida on Christmas Eve. United Launch Alliance announced Tuesday it has scheduled the launch of […]

HUNTSVILLE – Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville have supported a ground-breaking measurement that is helping solve a 60-year-old cosmic mystery. The  question is why is the sun’s […]

HUNTSVILLE — Alabama A&M, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the University of North Alabama and Auburn are among 42 college teams to compete next year in the Human Exploration […]

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its voyage to an asteroid of the same name, a metal-rich world that could tell us more about the formation […]

HOUSTON — The sample of a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid has evidence of carbon and water, NASA announced today. Initial studies of the sample from the asteroid Bennu show evidence of […]

FLORENCE – A “ring of fire” will appear in the sky Saturday morning as an annular eclipse of the sun will be visible in North Alabama. The University of North […]

HUNTSVILLE – The Space Hardware Club at the University of Alabama in Huntsville turned in strong finishes in two international aerospace competitions, the International CanSat Competition and the University Rover […]

WASHINGTON— The House Armed Services Committee will hear testimony Thursday from government witnesses regarding irregularity in the strategic basing process for the U.S. Space Command, U.S. Rep. Dale Strong’s office […]

HUNTSVILLE — Heeding a call to action to fill expected needs in a space-related workforce, the Alabama Space Roundtable held its inaugural meeting today. The gathering, hosted by North AlabamaWorks […]

HOUSTON — After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid […]

HUNTSVILLE – A doctoral student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has been awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship to […]

HUNTSVILLE — An asteroid sample is scheduled to land today in a Utah desert and should bring NASA one step closer to studying the earliest history of our solar system. […]

HUNTSVILLE — It will be a gathering of all things – and all people – space Monday when North AlabamaWorks hosts its inaugural Alabama Space Roundtable. It is the start […]

HUNTSVILLE – It may be the final countdown for the Huntsville City FC regular season, but a relic from the city’s space history will help launch the club’s playoff hopes. […]

HUNTSVILLE – Pull out your bell bottoms and polyester and get ready to shake your groove thing! The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the […]

HUNTSVILLE — Scientists have made claims of a discovery of a distant planet that has water and oceans. The researchers have focused their research on a massive planet that is […]