June 30, 2015, was the first “Asteroid Day,” when “people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids” and what can be done to protect the planet from asteroid and comet impacts, ...

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2025 Pulse Remembrance Ceremony. Nine years after the deadly mass Pulse nightclub shooting, the City of Orlando hosted its annual Pulse Remembrance Ceremony on Thursday.

Veterans rallied in Coronado and La Jolla to protest potential VA benefit cuts on D-Day's anniversary, drawing attention to the proposed job reductions.

If President Trump cancels the contracts for Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company, the federal government would struggle to achieve many goals in orbit and beyond.

But on this day, delivering a speech before the 9,389 graves of American soldiers lying beneath rows of white crosses in the Normandy American cemetery, all of whom died after the June 6, 1944 ...

NASA scientists are in a state of anxious limbo after the Trump administration proposed a budget that would eliminate the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies as a standalone entity.

NASA’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal seeks to end SLS development, along with the Orion spacecraft, with Artemis 3. Another $2.6 billion would support completion of the Gateway, which the ...

On the 1-year anniversary of the Starliner's doomed launch, revisit the biggest moments of a spaceflight mission that captured the world's attention.

Several people in history are tied to the day of remembrance, although in 1885, Wisconsin school teacher Bernard Cigrand is credited with urging his students to observe June 14 as "Flag Birthday." ...