Stories by SPACE.com

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

EnVision will follow NASA’s DAVINCI+ and VERITAS

The spacecraft captured the first close-up views of the solar system’s largest moon in more than 20 years

The multibillionaire—along with his brother and at least one other passenger—could reach suborbital heights as soon as July 20

The flyby will be the closest a spacecraft has come to the gas giant’s largest moon in 20 years

A Halloween launch for the space agency’s long-awaited flagship observatory is all but certain to slip into mid-November or later