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PASADENA, Calif. — After NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids.

"We don't fully understand the state of the vehicle." The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown issues as the ...

This modern-day space photo has it all. There are currently three landers, on three different exploration missions, en route to the moon. One of them, Intuitive Machines' Athena, just looked back ...

"This milestone confirms that our space station design is technically sound and safe for astronaut crewed operations." The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production ...

Are you into music that’s really out there, as in, space? Oakland is holding a performance of a science-fiction opera that deals with love, loss and galactic colonization – and naturally ...

But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to saving the planet – a gravity tractor. The plan involves sending a spacecraft to rendezvous with a dangerous asteroid ...

A pair of NASA astronauts, who were stranded in space for more than nine months, returned to Earth on Tuesday, landing in the Gulf of America off Tallahassee, Florida, bringing an end to an ...

A four-legged robot from Texas landed squarely on the Moon on 2 March, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to execute a lunar landing without falling over or crashing. The lander, known as ...

March 25, 2025 • In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the ...

Firefly Aerospace, a United States-based private space company, has successfully landed its Blue Ghost spacecraft on the moon for a two-week research mission amid a race between a handful of ...