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 ...

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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 ...

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 CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as the CEO of Relativity Space, a 9-year-old rocket startup, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch. This is Schmidt’s first ...

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 ...

Mr. Schmidt, 69, succeeds Relativity Space’s current chief and co-founder, Timothy Ellis, the two people said.It is unclear how much money Mr. Schmidt has invested in the start-up.

Varda Space Industries' W-2 space capsule reentered Earth's atmosphere and touched down in the Australian outback last month, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to land Down Under.