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 ...

Two NASA astronauts are expected to come home this month after being stranded in space since June. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, but their ...

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 ...

With its Blue Ghost lunar module, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace has just achieved what no other private company, anywhere in the world, has ever accomplished: successfully landing on the surface ...

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 ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has successfully touched down on the moon, in a pivotal moment for private space travel. The size of a compact car, the four-legged lander is carrying 10 ...

Katy Perry is going to space. The award-winning "E.T." and "Firework" singer will fly on a firework of her own when she joins the first all-female crew to launch on a Blue Origin New Shepard ...

There's a small crisis emerging in outer space, as the skies above our planet are slowly filling with floating space trash and experts are rushing to find a way to clear away the worst of it.

Like Elon Musk — the only person wealthier than him — Jeff Bezos has an enduring passion for space. But while Musk dreams of colonizing Mars, Bezos envisions shifting heavy industry off-planet onto ...

Crewed space travel isn’t just an engineering feat. It’s a test of the endurance and resilience of the human body. In microgravity, astronauts' bodies undergo dramatic changes: muscles weaken, bones ...