Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

Lauren Sánchez will have a new pal joining her on her upcoming, all-female trip to space on a Blue Origin rocket: Flynn, the character from her first children's book, The Fly Who Flew to Space ...

Two NASA astronauts stranded in orbit for nine months have tasted fresh air again after they left their shuttle back to Earth ...

Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage ... Rather, after ascending along a southeasterly trajectory, the rocket's ...

Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Friday following a string of delays, with the rocket carrying four new Nasa astronauts to replace the ...

A SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station early on Sunday to allow a pair of stuck NASA astronauts to return to Earth. NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ...

Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage ... After soaring skyward along a southeasterly trajectory, the rocket's first-stage booster will target landing aboard a SpaceX drone ship out at sea ...

Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space ... along a southeasterly trajectory, the rocket's first-stage booster will target landing aboard a SpaceX drone ship out at sea about eight minutes after liftoff.