Space Exploration

From brave exploration to just another playground for the 0.0000001 percent

Life onboard the ISS goes on in the wake of Russia’s attack against Ukraine, even as the space project faces an uncertain future

In the next five years, the nation hopes to launch a robotic craft to an asteroid, two lunar missions and an orbital observatory

Space agencies are partnering with car manufacturers to custom build new rovers—or retrofit commercial vehicles—for future missions to the moon and Mars

The space agency has announced the timing of the ISS’s demise as part of a long-planned transition to private orbital outposts

The permanently shadowed regions at the lunar poles might contain thick ice reservoirs

After decades of false starts, a new push for nuclear-powered rocketry could make or break the space agency’s plans to send astronauts to the Red Planet

As we continue to push into space, the 55th anniversary of the deadly fire reminds us to prioritize both safety and people

Independent concepts from each nation envision launching high-speed spacecraft on aspirational multigenerational voyages into the great unknown of interstellar space

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will travel to a special spot where the gravity from Earth and the sun is balanced