Blue Origin hopes launching Michaela Benthaus, a German space engineer who uses a wheelchair, will help make space more accessible.

NASA is floating a notional mission that would send three astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid using SpaceX hardware, and the timeline reads like a blueprint for the future. Multiple Starship tankers ...

Learn the fundamentals behind space elevator design in this exploratory guide to futuristic transportation. The video discusses geostationary orbit, tether materials, and the immense forces involved ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

American astronomer-turned-medical physicist and now NASA astronaut Chris Williams joined two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz ferry ship Thursday for a Thanksgiving Day flight to the International ...

Imagine this scenario: you have an important space telescope that’s rapidly sinking in altitude, slated to crash down to Earth next year unless you can nudge it back up. Arizona-based private space ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the four-member Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station on Friday morning, after weather forced the scrub of the mission a day ...

Liftoff is scheduled for 4:27 a.m. ET on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27). There's some spaceflight action on tap on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27), but you'll have to get up pretty early to catch it. A Soyuz ...

In 2026, a first-of-its-kind spacecraft—launched on a rocket dropped out of a plane—will attempt to save NASA’s Swift observatory from a fiery demise. Yes, really. Reading time 3 minutes An ...

The big reveal will come Wednesday (Nov. 19) at 3 p.m. ET. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Update for 7 pm ET: NASA revealed new ...

A comet named 3I/ATLAS, originating from outside our solar system, is passing through Earth's cosmic neighborhood. NASA has released new images of the comet, which is only the third interstellar ...

NASA on Wednesday released new images of an interstellar comet, just the third visitor ever confirmed from elsewhere in the galaxy, which show the object as a bright point of light surrounded by a ...