China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa ...

Missions that return asteroid samples bring home more than just very expensive dust. These samples can provide valuable ...

The NASA SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts NASA's Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates' Sultan Al Neyadi and ...

The days of NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket and Orion space capsule may be limited, as a White House budget proposal ...

(Eric Bordelon/NASA via SWNS) It is scheduled to fire the mission into space in 2027 to land astronauts near the Moon’s South Pole using SpaceX’s Starship HLS (Human Landing System). NASA’s SLS rocket ...

However, the public reaction was mixed. On social media and among some experts, her return drew criticism—particularly a moment when she stepped out of the space capsule, held up a daisy, and kissed ...

The Baden-Württemberg space company Atmos Space Cargo has tested its Phoenix transportation system, which is designed to bring payloads into space and back to earth. The test was successful, even ...

The United States is an important market for Orion, and we will, of course, follow the development of the situation closely. In March, we announced that Orion is establishing a new research & ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird. The asteroid Donaldjohanson—named after the paleoanthropologist ...

The Falcon rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 21 at 0815 UTC, deploying the freighter into orbit almost 10 minutes ...

A NASA spacecraft is traveling to the most mysterious asteroids in the solar system. On the way there, it snapped images of the curious, elongated asteroid dubbed "Donaldjohanson." On April 20 ...