Although we have been living in the space age for more than half a century, flights to Earth’s orbit are still rare. In the ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

The Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) is a significant technological initiative by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to develop and demonstrate in-space docking technology. This ...

The follow-up mission will also feature a Nova-C lander featuring NASA’s PRIME-1 drill headed for the moon’s south pole. Also flying on that mission is the Lunar Trailblazer satellite that ...

In April 2023, the Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) Lunar Lander plummeted towards the Moon and crashed on its surface. Hakuto-R M1 was carrying both commercial and government-owned payloads, including a ...

In SpaceCraft you play an outcast human pilot, part of a grand exodus from Earth after a bunch of aliens called Tripods rock up and smash everything. Those Tripods thought they had won; in practice, ...

On Wednesday, Mukuku Village in Kenya got an unexpected visitor from space. At about 3 p.m. local time, a large metallic ring weighing about 1,100 pounds and measuring 8 feet in diameter crash ...

Last year was a big one for the space sector, marked by SpaceX’s building momentum, Boeing Co.’s Starliner struggles, and a slew of activity from a host of names. So what can we expect in 2025?

Florida's Space Coast hosted a record-shattering 93 orbital rocket launches during 2024. Looking ahead, will this year's total set another new annual record? Following are the latest missions ...

And the slightly more powerful "Vostok" version of the booster carried Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961, opening the era of human spaceflight. The first Soyuz variant, a rocket that has been ...