A congressional hearing about NASA’s budget and activities offered more questions than answers about the International Space Station, orbital debris hazards and returning astronauts to the moon...
The observatory must complete about 50 major deployments after liftoff
The 90-year-old Star Trek actor is now the oldest person to fly in space
After a tense manual docking by a professional cosmonaut, the Soyuz spacecraft’s other occupants—an actress and a director—are set to make a first-of-its-kind movie in orbit...
The concepts include souped-up Mars helicopters and inexpensive orbiters and landers
The space agency’s first-ever robotic moon rover will touch down in late 2023 just west of Nobile, a crater near the lunar south pole
The crew’s splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean marks the historic mission’s end
The crew will spend the next few days in space before returning to Earth in the fully autonomous Dragon module
The three-day orbital voyage of the all-civilian crew will be a historic milestone for human spaceflight
A chance celestial alignment is allowing astronomers to witness a distant star’s explosive death, again and again
Economic inequality, an indulgent trip to space and an ongoing legal battle with NASA are putting the space company in the hot seat
Years of weather monitoring suggest a high-altitude locale in Qinghai Province could host future telescopes
Using data from the OSIRIS-REx mission, scientists calculated slightly increased (but still low) odds the space rock will collide with our planet in the 2100s
Mineral deposits, not salty water, are the most likely cause of radar reflections spotted beneath the planet’s south pole, a new study finds
The billionaire and three others take a suborbital trip onboard the craft New Shepard
After nearly twenty years pursuing a lifelong dream of spaceflight, the world’s wealthiest person is at last ready for lift off
SpaceShipTwo make a successful, crewed suborbital test flight to 282,000 feet (86 kilometers) above Earth’s surface
Otherwise clement regions of the planet’s atmosphere are still too dry to sustain life as we know it
Although mission controllers have yet to identify the source of the problem, confidence is high the iconic observatory will soon return to normal operations
The nation’s first crewed liftoff in nearly five years is the third of 11 planned launches to complete the station’s construction
