The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...

A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center powered down all of Gaia's subsystems and sent it into a "retirement orbit" around the ... from its team on Earth," The ESA said.

Here's a rundown of the science experiments that SpaceX's Fram2 astronaut mission will conduct while orbiting Earth's poles.

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

The mission was the first-stage boosters fifth. It successfully returned to Earth about 8 minutes ... Gaia spacecraft is shut down, sent into 'retirement orbit' around the Sun March 27 (UPI ...

The NASA astronauts splashed down on Tuesday in a SpaceX capsule after problems with a Boeing vehicle set in motion a ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

But before it can send up satellites for clients ... It will transport small and micro-satellites of up to 1,300 kg into ...

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

As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams return to Earth this week after being stranded at the ISS for 9 months, ...