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SpaceX says the booster tipped over due to a landing-leg failure.

Staff at Apple’s European headquarters in the city have been evacuated following a security alert but police have denied reports that the bomb disposal squad has been notified. The evacuation started at 10 a.m., according to The Irish Times, and is now over.

In a tweet, the company said, “First stage on target at drone ship but looks like hard landing; broke landing leg”. But this time, it would try to land on what Musk calls an “autonomous spaceport drone ship”, a platform off the California coast. It has a...

These contracts are a lucrative agreement wherein NASA pays commercial spaceflight companies to fly unmanned cargo deliveries to, and sometimes from, the ISS.

The theme for this celebration is “Journey for Justice and Equity”. Check out this excerpt from Howard Sachar’s “A History of Jews in America”, this partial archive of JTA’s coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, and this introduction to Martin...

A key ocean-monitoring satellite on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sunday that will continue a almost quarter-century record of tracking global sea level rise.

Microsoft’s product lifecycle support policies for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 could vary somewhat, based on a machine’s underlying hardware and chip technologies. As per the new rules from the company, future PC owners with next-generation Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm...

“After a successful SpaceX Falcon 9 launch and ascent including two burns by the rocket’s second stage engine, the Jason-3 spacecraft has separated and is flying free”, said Michael Curie of NASA in an email.

The win marks the second time that Arizona defeated Green Bay in a playoff game on the third play of overtime – Karlos Dansby had the game-winning fumble return in 2009 – and Saturday night’s win made the Cardinals the first team to win two playoff games on an...

Bundy and his supporters are protesting the federal government’s meddling with public grazing lands, which they say should be returned to local residents.

With pollution levels up to 8 times above the safe limit on some days, the experiment hoped to tackle the problem by allowing only cars with odd-numbered plates to be used on odd days, cars with even-numbered plates on even days and shut schools for two weeks.

SpaceX also attempted to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean this morning but failed, marking the fourth time it has missed the mark.

So what did Bezos do when SpaceX came close to pulling off the first landing of a used rocket booster on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean? The worldwide mission Jason-3, led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) partnering with the United States space...

“I think this will give a big boost to players, fans, everyone in the environment of Manchester United”.

Jason-3 lifted off at 10:42 am PST from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, under foggy skies with winds of 5 miles per hour (8 km/h).