Spacecraft

If successful, the October 19th landing would be a historic first for Europe's space programs

A privately funded small space telescope could soon seek Earth-like planets around the sun’s nearest neighboring stars

A deliberate collision with a comet brought the historic space mission to an end

Follow the pioneering spacecraft’s final descent to the bizarre surface of the distant space traveler  

Astronomers are racing to get the first historic image of another possibly Earth-like planet. Here’s how they’ll do it

The entrepreneur announces detailed plans for a reusable craft that can cary 100 people 

If confirmed, the icy Jovian moon’s eruptions could offer new pathways for exploring its subsurface ocean

Spacecraft could help scientists track logging, natural disasters and illegal mining

Tiangong 2 will develop expertise for a future space station and conduct science experiments

OSIRIS-REx is set to scrape dirt and gravel from a space rock and return to Earth in 2023

International rules on microbe contamination may stymie Curiosity's bid to study suspected water in hillside streaks 

Retrieval of a space rock sample would be proof of concept for mining metals and water