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After spending months on a week-long mission, Sunita Williams finally meets the SpaceX capsule that will bring her back from space
The mission, launched on Saturday, marked a critical milestone in their extended stay in space, wit…
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NASA's dream of a space plane could finally become reality
Radian Aerospace is building Radian One, a space plane that could carry people and satellites to sp…
Alex Bitter
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NASA is scrapping a moon rover that it spent $450 million to build
NASA is cutting its losses and scrapping its moon rover mission, after it proved to be exceedingly …
Aditi Bharade
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Budget 2024: How will budget affect India’s position in the global space race?
As per the interim budget announcement, India’s space budget for 2024-25 will stand at around Rs 13…
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NASA estimates the pandemic ballooned costs by $3 billion — here are the projects to take the biggest hit
As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe in 2020, many organisations were forced to shut…
Prabhjote Gill
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Elon Musk holds the keys to the moon because SpaceX's Starship megarocket launch is crucial to NASA's return
SpaceX plans to launch its flagship megarocket, Starship, for the first time in April, taking NASA …
Marianne Guenot,Kate Duffy
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Wavering NASA lander detects biggest Mars quake yet, even as dust drains its energy
NASA's InSight lander is fighting a layer of Mars dust that's covering its solar panels and causing…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The asteroid NASA is about to strike poses no threat to Earth, but 60% of city-killer rocks fly under the radar
NASA's DART mission is about to practice deflecting an asteroid away from Earth. But NASA can't pro…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX responds to NASA's concerns over Starlink collisions in outer space: 'The reliability of the satellite network is currently higher than 99%'
SpaceX plans to create a megaconstellation of over 42,000 Starlink satellites and released 46 more …
Grace Kay
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It's been 50 years since the last moonwalk. NASA astronauts explain why it took so long.
NASA's new Space Launch System had some technical issues, but astronauts say the real reason the US…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Hilary …
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NASA is pushing its human moon landing back to 2025, and its top official worries China will beat the US there
Now that Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA is over, the agency can work with SpaceX to build its n…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is finally advancing a space telescope that could track down dangerous asteroids before they strike Earth
Potentially hazardous asteroids often skim past Earth without warning. A space telescope that looks…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A space telescope that could protect Earth from asteroids has been stuck in 'NASA mission limbo hell' - but it may finally escape
A telescope in orbit could track asteroids that may crash into Earth. But no such mission has moved…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Moon Day celebrates when man first landed on the Moon and how 51 years later everyone wants a piece of it
National Moon Day may only be celebrated in the United States but it marks a moment that is a miles…
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Virgin Galactic aims to fly its first human mission from Spaceport America in November, and NASA's sending some science experiments along for the ride
A successful test flight is crucial if the company wants to start serving its well-heeled customers…
Susie Neilson,Dave Mosher
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The International Space Station has housed people for 20 years, but the $150 billion experiment will soon come to an end
Twenty years after Expedition 1 arrived on the International Space Station, here are some crew memb…
Susie Neilson
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NASA just fired up the most powerful rocket booster ever built — a key part of its Space Launch System to return humans to the moon
NASA hopes to fly the full Space Launch System in 2021, then send astronauts to the moon in 2024 as…
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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SpaceX's next astronaut mission for NASA has been pushed back to Halloween
NASA and SpaceX announced that the Crew-1 mission will launch on October 31 — later than originally…
Susie Neilson
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SpaceX cargo launches may soon cost 50% more - but it's still an offer NASA can't refuse
NASA set up its first competitions for contracts in 2006 - years before the shuttle program's retir…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX just brought 2 NASA astronauts back to Earth in its Crew Dragon spaceship, kicking off 'the next era in human spaceflight'
After flying 27 million miles around Earth over 64 days, astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley spl…