Spacecraft

SpaceX and other companies are still struggling to make their satellites darker in the night sky

In the far future, we could reveal detailed views of distant worlds by turning our home star into a gravitational lens

NASA’s three-and-a-half-year mission to collect seismic data from Mars is running out of juice

The Starliner team is confident the malfunctions won’t prevent the spacecraft from completing its mission

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended hopes of launching the ExoMars rover in 2022. Now the mission may never lift off at all

The uncrewed flight includes a payload of food, provisions and a specialized flight-test dummy

THESAN—the largest, most detailed computer model of the universe’s first billion years yet made—is helping set expectations for observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Ground stations are currently tracking 16 fragments associated with the event, which occurred on April 15

After delivering extraterrestrial samples to Earth in 2023, OSIRIS-REx will embark on an extended mission to a potentially planet-threatening space rock

Russia will move forward with lunar exploration without its European partners

An influential panel’s recommendation makes the ice giant a likely destination for a flagship space mission

A satellite will scour the Milky Way for exoplanets orbiting stars just like the sun