On March 6, 1986, the Soviet Union's Vega 1 spacecraft flew by Halley's Comet. Vega 1 was the first of five missions to fly by Halley's Comet in the same month. This fleet of spacecraft has been ...

SpaceX has announced plans to launch Starship from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A by the end of the year. Construction of the SpaceX Gigabay, a facility for stacking and finalizing Starship ...

Two NASA astronauts are expected to come home this month after being stranded in space since June. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, but their ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

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Space stocks are climbing in premarket trade on Monday, after the private space company Firefly Aerospace successfully landed on the Moon. The Cedar Park, Texas-based company said that its ...

With its Blue Ghost lunar module, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace has just achieved what no other private company, anywhere in the world, has ever accomplished: successfully landing on the surface ...

On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to ...

Building such facilities off Earth could have a lot of benefits. Early projects are underway. Last week, the Florida-based company Lonestar Data Holdings launched a shoebox-size device carrying ...

The company has made changes to the vehicle, part of which blew up over the Caribbean in January during the seventh test flight. An issue during the countdown halted Monday’s launch. By Kenneth ...

GALLATIN COUNTY, Ky. — An 18-year-old is dead after a head-on crash Saturday night in Gallatin County, Kentucky State Police (KSP) said. KSP said the two-vehicle crash occurred on KY Highway ...

Why it's so special: Nicknamed the "Great Comet of 2025," Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is currently the brightest comet predicted to be visible from Earth all year. Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the ...