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

While not an alien spacecraft, 'Oumuamua was an interstellar object (ISO), which came from another planetary system far, far away — and traveled at the blazingly fast speed of 196,000 miles per ...

This is Rocket Lab's fifth launch of 2025, with another expected within the next few weeks. That mission, DART AE, will liftoff using the company's HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test ...

March 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering. A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its second science-gathering flyby of the sun, the space agency announced on Tuesday (March 25). | Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch two rockets from Florida's Space Coast on Sunday, March 30, and Monday, March 31. The first launch will deploy Starlink satellites, while the second will carry four ...

The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and landing on July 21, 2011. China and Russia are the only other countries to have ...

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After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. By Katrina Miller The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights ...