A rocket launched from southern New Mexico on June 13 was used to help develop the technology for launching atomic weapons as ...

The rocket reached the edge of space, performed a suborbital flight, then released the payload and returned to the ground.

Evidence buried in gypsum dunes suggests humans arrived far earlier than expected. Radiocarbon dates from three materials ...

In a nutshell New independent research confirms that 23,000-year-old human footprints at White Sands National Park are authentic, proving people lived in North America during the peak ice age. The ...

Sand scorpions, nocturnal hunters who spend their days in burrows, also leave distinct tracks.

I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Seismographs in Tucson detected the explosion from 280 miles away.

The Willcox Playa will be one of five Starliner landing sites, along with two sites on White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Dugway Proving Ground near Salt Lake City and Edwards Air Force ...

The Joint Base Lewis-McChord facility is one of about 30 the Army is targeting for closure. Supporters say its collections ...

The Air Force ran five successful test drops of the bombs at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range in 2012 – three with live warheads, and two with inert warheads.

White Sands Missile Range welcomed a new commander during a Change of Command ceremony as outgoing commander Brig. Gen. George C. Turner Jr.

At White Sands Missile Range, local middle school students participated in the Gains in the Education of Mathematics and ...