There’s a very common question asked of people working in space exploration: Why explore space when we have so many problems on Earth? From Wi-Fi to satellite images of real estate, to matters of national security, much of our daily lives has been made ...

The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program came to an end on Monday (Jan. 19) when an uncrewed Shenzhou 20 capsule parachuted into the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Space exploration is as fickle as it is fantastic. From the highest highs to the lowest lows — from the euphoria of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, for example, to the devastation of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 — it has more ...