Spacecraft

Government approves robot mission for Moon Express, which wants to mine our satellite 

NASA’s first sample-return mission to an asteroid could be vital for understanding life’s origins and shaping its future

Craft due to launch in August is first in a wave of planned quantum space experiments

A new film presents an innovative plan to image potentially habitable planets around our sun's closest stellar neighbor—Alpha Centauri 

Company racks up its 5th rocket landing in a cargo launch to the Space Station

Image takes in the Great Red Spot, cloud belts and three big moons

What is so risky about Juno’s special maneuver? How close will the spacecraft get to the gas giant, and what does it hope to learn? Here are five quick facts summarizing the excitement around the recent Juno mission to Jupiter

Mission scientists are investigating what caused a suspension the Mars rover's activities on July 2

Before it died barely a month after launch, the Hitomi spacecraft spied interesting effects of black holes on the Perseus cluster of galaxies

A microwave radiometer onboard the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter could soon reveal where and how the giant planet formed

Shoebox-size craft face a wait to be propelled beyond Earth’s orbit

Landsat 8 captured a relatively rare “underflight” of the ISS as the two crossed paths