The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious spacecraft ever designed, pioneering reusable spaceflight and enabling decades of missions. With massive solid rocket boosters, advanced ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will need to wait a little longer before heading to space. After delaying the launch of these missions five times — they were originally slated to take to the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA ...

SpaceX has announced plans to launch Starship from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A by the end of the year. Construction of the SpaceX Gigabay, a facility for stacking and finalizing Starship ...

Last year, St. Cloud Inventor Felicity-John Pederson had a replica of the Space Shuttle moved from Florida to Minnesota with plans to use it as part of a museum. We’ve learned Pederson no longer ...

Two years ago, Frank Rubio became the first NASA astronaut to spend over a year in space after a meteoroid damaged the Russian Soyuz spacecraft he arrived on. In 2003, when a shuttle disintegrated ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

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Space stocks are climbing in premarket trade on Monday, after the private space company Firefly Aerospace successfully landed on the Moon. The Cedar Park, Texas-based company said that its ...

“This incredible achievement demonstrates how NASA and US companies are leading the way in space exploration for the benefit of all,” Janet Petro, NASA’s acting administrator, said in a stat ...

Other companies have similar aspirations. The US space company Axiom Space, best known for organizing short trips to the International Space Station for private astronauts, intends to launch a ...

This trip to space, which had been scheduled for Monday night, was to be largely a do-over of the seventh flight, which launched in January. In that test, Starship’s mammoth booster, or the ...