(Photo from NASA's Johnson Space Center) Cady Heron popularized Oct. 3 as a historically precious day, and it certainly was for Walter M. Schirra, Jr. 60 years ago, he was launched into space as one...

On the July 20, in 1969, Neil Armstrong made history for the human race. In one small step, he became the first man to physically cross the threshold between Earth and the cosmos,...

For the past two decades, NJIT’s Dr. Boris Khusid has been engaged in space research with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and one of his experiments was...

The longest lasting Mars reconnaissance mission in history officially came to a close on February 13, as announced in a NASA press conference last Wednesday. The Opportunity Rover (also known as MER-1...

For the first time in human history, a spacecraft by the name of Chang’e 4 successfully made a soft landing on the far side of the moon on January 3, a mission accomplished by China’s National Space...