This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

NASA's Orion crew module test article is framed by the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Somerset as teams practice Artemis 2 ...

They will be aboard the New Shepard, the centerpiece rocket of Blue Origin’s space tourism business, in a launch this spring. Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter ... that the space shuttle launch ...

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The rocket’s chief passenger is SPHEREx, a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a hundred colors that are invisible to the human eye. Accompanying the telescope ...

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The Gateway space station will be humanity’s first space station around the Moon as a vital component of the Artemis missions to return humans to the lunar surface for scientific discovery and chart ...

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has taken a controlling interest in the Long Beach, California-based Relativity Space. The New York Times first reported the change becoming official ...

The return to Earth of Boeing's Starliner astronauts stuck on the International Space Station inched closer as their replacements arrived to Florida for their relief flight this week. The quartet ...

Space Force officials would not say what’s on board other than a Nasa experiment to gauge the effects of radiation on materials. Its predawn touchdown on Friday at Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

It resembles the famous NASA space shuttle in that it is solar-powered, though it notably lacks any sort of portholes and is considerably smaller.

The U.S. military's mini space shuttle, the X-37B, returned after a 434-day mission. Launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December 2023 by SpaceX, the secretive unmanned mission ended at ...