MOSCOW-Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the country’s armed forces, launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a spacecraft for defence purposes, the state RIA news agency reported early on March 3 ...

Millions across the United States will be able to watch a rare total lunar eclipse when the full moon slips behind the darkest part of the Earth's shadow, or umbra, this month. Referred to as a ...

A private spacecraft has landed on the Moon, becoming only the second commercial vehicle to reach the lunar surface. Blue Ghost left Earth on January 15, after being launched by US firm Firefly ...

Confirmation of successful touchdown came from the company’s Mission Control outside Austin, Texas, following the action some 225,000 miles (360,000 kilometers) away. “You all stuck the landing.

On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to attempt a ...

WASHINGTON — Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious metals in space, and he is all too aware that success is not guaranteed.And, quite ...