Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and his Ax-4 mission crewmates are set to undock from the ISS on July 14, targeting a ...

On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the ...

Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar ...

SpaceX conducted a static fire test of a single Starship 26 engine. The test demonstrated "flight-like startup for a Starship deorbit burn," according to SpaceX. Credit: SpaceX | edited by Space.com's ...

Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is getting $843 million from NASA to develop and deliver the vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station.

Elon Musk continues to push the idea that it’s time to deorbit the International Space Station and shift focus toward the Red Planet. “It has served its purpose,” the billionaire SpaceX ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk posted on social media that he wants to deorbit the International Space Station sooner than the expected date of 2030.

DOGE leader and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said it's time to speed up preparations to deorbit the International Space Station.

As competition in the new space race ramps up with China, the United States is preparing to deorbit the International Space Station. If a replacement is not ready by 2028, China may become the ...

MILAN—NASA does not plan to launch SpaceX’s International Space Station (ISS) deorbit vehicle until it is sure the follow-on to accommodate astronauts and microgravity experiments is ready ...

Japanese space-sustainability company Astroscale just signed a $90 million contract to take a bus-sized rocket stage out of orbit by the end of the decade.