Space Exploration

“The test has so far generated over 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris,” a State Department spokesperson said

The long-delayed successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is set to take flight in December

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

Efforts are underway to make space missions more accessible

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 European and Japanese spacecraft performed the first of six slingshot maneuvers around the planet. It will ultimately insert two probes into orbit in 2025

Pandemic-spawned supply-chain disruptions are delaying launches and development of satellites, lunar rovers and interplanetary missions

The concepts include souped-up Mars helicopters and inexpensive orbiters and landers

Far from pioneering wide access to orbit, privately funded spaceflight is geared to perpetuate inequities in space and on Earth

The crew’s splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean marks the historic mission’s end