The Orbital Carrier is being designed by Seattle-based company Gravitics and is funded through the Space Force's SpaceWERX development office, which partners with private industry to develop new ...

No humans have traveled directly over the Earth's poles from space. SpaceX will attempt to launch four passengers over the Earth's poles.

NASA Technicians do final checks on NASA's Spirit rover in this image from March 28, 2003. The rover - and its twin, ...

The China National Space Administration was founded more than 25 years ago and is overseeing an ambitious programme which includes deep space exploration, a manned space station, and cutting-edge ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are finally making their way back to Earth after an eight-day mission to space turned into a nine-month-long hiatus at the International Space Station.

The record for a single trip into space currently stands at 437 days, but prolonged periods in orbit can alter an astronaut's body in some surprising ways, changing their muscles, brains and even ...

Space agencies from around the world launched ... In addition to the inaugural launch, the payload included Blue Ring Pathfinder, which was set to demonstrate its ability to communicate from ...

The HERMES Pathfinder mission, led by the Italian Space Agency and the European Union, consists of six 3U CubeSats with detectors for X-rays and gamma-rays that will be used to detect gamma ray ...

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Smith was a former manager of Shuttle Systems Engineering at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, while Spudis was a staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI). Both men have since ...

Go SpaceX. Go SPHEREx, Go PUNCH. SPHEREx and PUNCH on their way to map out our universe like never before and revolutionize space weather forecasting. SPHEREx is drifting away from Falcon 9’s ...

There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies carrying precious NASA cargo. As the ...