March 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off ... Gaia's subsystems and sent it into a "retirement orbit" around the Sun. Advertisement "Gaia's ...

The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun's surface at a whopping 430,000 miles per hour (692,000 kilometers per hour), matching the historic ...

A SpaceX astronaut mission like no other will lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Here's what to know.

Data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter is used in an undated composite image of the planet Venus. It will consist of four planets, including Venus, Saturn, Mercury ...

US Space Force aims to deploy maneuverable spacecraft, not as isolated units but housed within a central "mothership" capable ...

Reports suggest that countries like Russia and China are developing advanced counter-space capabilities. These include a mix of kinetic, non-kinetic, and cyber tools designed to disable ...

Gravitics gets an up-to-$60 million contract to build a satellite that can spit out other satellites as needed.

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its final orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more than a decade. The spacecraft's control team at the European Space ...

The Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight around Earth’s polar regions, as the commander shares with Spectrum ...

But in general, the idea is to provide an unpressurized module in which one or more satellites can be pre-positioned in orbit. Such a module would isolate the satellites from the space environment ...