Spacecraft

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to massively expand its orbital footprint in a bid to power next-generation artificial intelligence

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors

SpaceX and xAI could join forces ahead of Elon Musk’s plan to take the former public later this year, according to Reuters

Many of the team behind NASA’s Artemis II mission were children 40 years ago, when the space shuttle Challenger disaster reshaped spaceflight

Scientists are using technology developed to study earthquakes to address an out-of-this-world risk

On Friday NASA laid out the time line for Artemis II, humanity’s first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years

NASA may bring some of the ISS’s crew home earlier than planned after one member experienced a medical issue just hours before two astronauts were due to complete a space walk outside the station on Wednesday

Lawmakers aim to support science research despite cuts proposed by the Trump administration

NASA’s new boss Jared Isaacman hinted that he could break with Texas lawmakers’ push to move iconic space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Houston

From crewed lunar voyages to flight tests of fully reusable rockets and launches of new orbital telescopes studying the outer limits of the cosmos, 2026 should be a banner year for space science and exploration

The proposed Russian Orbital Station will stick to a familiar path instead of an ambitious polar orbit