College kids at the University of Southern California (USC) blasted above an international altitude record, launching an amateur rocket 470,000 feet into space. The spacecraft, Aftershock II ...

above Earth’s surface that is widely recognized as the altitude at which outer space begins — but there’s a lot of gray area.

SpaceX made multiple changes in the wake of a January Starship failure, only to suffer a second straight vehicle breakup ...

Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Selected companies will also get access to mentorship and 12 months of lab and office space at Altitude’s “rapidly-expanding life science hub in Salt Lake City.” The accelerator is designed ...

The midair crash near DCA that killed 67 exposed critical gaps in air traffic management, as investigators uncover frequent near-miss incidents.

Chris Gibson, CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, is investing $1 million of his own money into Altitude Lab’s pre-seed venture, which aims to support new companies in the space. Altitude Lab, which is ...