Spacecraft

NASA’s Juno spacecraft peered underneath the gas giant’s dense clouds to determine the structure of its iconic spinning storm

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

The observatory must complete about 50 major deployments after liftoff

The NASA spacecraft will loop past the never before explored Trojan asteroids during a 12-year journey

The 90-year-old Star Trek actor is now the oldest person to fly in space

A new approach could mitigate the most damaging effects of an imminent asteroid or comet strike—or ensure many threatening objects never get close to striking Earth in the first place

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 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