When Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit rocket failed on its maiden launch from Cornwall in 2023, it brought Britain’s space ...

From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a ...

An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But why have they been away for so long - and what are the effects of such a ...

Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in space, a repeat of an ... shiny stainless steel rocket from science fiction movies of the 1950s.

The Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched after the rescue mission was delayed due to a technical issue earlier this week.

This is what Mr Musk said he wanted to do last year. Then it seemed barely plausible. Today it looks next to impossible. Mr ...

Butch and Suni arrived at the ISS at the beginning of June 2024 to test an experimental spacecraft called Starliner, which was built by the aerospace firm Boeing, a rival to SpaceX.

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first great ape to travel to space. His mission was ... end when he returned to Earth. While Mr. Scientific’s video documents Ham’s ...

An Australian company is set to become the first to debut a crop of mushrooms in outer space in an experiment led by a ...

Lift-off has taken place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket blasted off successfully in its mission to rescue two stranded astronauts ...

If all goes as planned, the two astronauts will be heading back to Earth on March 19. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SpaceX was conducting the eighth uncrewed test flight of its mega-rocket — the world’s biggest ... The upper stage was supposed to remain in space for about 40 minutes before performing ...