On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon.

The International Space Station (ISS) is humanity's most expensive object and has been in orbit for 25 years. Read its ...

With the International Space Station (ISS) set to retire in 2030, several nations and commercial space companies have plans ...

Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing ...

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

The meteor shower is known for producing spectacular displays in the night sky and will be visible in skies across the UK, ...

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston closed 2025 with major progress across human spaceflight, research, and exploration.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order formalizing a new U.S. space policy that sets the goal of landing Americans on the moon by 2028 and beginning to establish a "permanent lunar ...

South Korean startup Innospace is set to attempt its first orbital launch today (Dec. 22), and you can watch the action live.

Although the Ursids are active from Dec. 13 through Dec. 26, the peak night coincides with the winter solstice, which occurs at 10:03 a.m. EST on Dec. 21. Though the two events are totally unrelated, ...