The spacecraft that will carry the next troop of astronauts to the International Space Station has reached the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is scheduled to launch no earlier than March 12,…
NASA on Friday unveiled the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and two Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry astronauts on the first crewed Artemis mission around the moon. A four-astronaut mission to orbit the moon is scheduled…
SpaceX's Starship 8 lifted into the Texas evening sky from its Starbase launch pad near Brownsville on Thursday, but crews lost contact with the spacecraft minutes after liftoff. It was the first test flight since Starship 7 broke apart midflight…
The privately built Athena spacecraft is beaming data back to NASA scientists on Earth, it was announced Thursday. But the craft didn't land exactly as expected, and scientists aren't sure of its exact location. This is already the second ship…
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have preserved the power reserves of the record-breaking Voyager 1 and 2 space probes nearly 50 years after their launch to extend their lifespan. In 1977, NASA began launching probes that used a decaying…
Japanese lunar exploration company iSpace said Tuesday it plans to place a lander on the moon on June 6. The company's founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada held a press conference on Monday to share details of its second lunar mission,…