China is rounding off what has been a year of big progress in space, including major crewed lunar landing tests, new rockets and booster landing attempts, a new deep space mission and even ...

Inversion, a young aerospace and defense company based in Los Angeles, has unveiled its first flagship spacecraft, Arc. The reentry vehicle is designed to deliver up to 500 pounds of mission-critical ...

In 2023, Odin Space successfully validated its junk-tracking technology in orbit after launching as a rideshare payload on ...

Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...

Varda engineers at Vandenberg Space Force Base with the W-4 vehicle. Credit: Varda Space Industries WASHINGTON — Varda Space Industries is preparing to launch its fourth spacecraft, W-4, on a SpaceX ...

Among the bonus science collected by Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander was high-definition imagery of a total solar eclipse on March 14. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace is no stranger to ...

Humanity's understanding of the solar system has evolved dramatically following the advent of spaceflight. Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ...

What happens when you use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply ship? A record-setting resupply mission to the International Space Station. The first flight of Northrop’s ...

Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, the New Shepard is composed of both a rocket and a crew capsule and is designed to be fully reusable. The New Shepard's crew capsule ...

The first Space Force officer to be launched into space came back to Earth on Tuesday evening after six months aboard the International Space Station, returning alongside two astronauts who had stayed ...

Generally speaking, space missions are being performed with lone spacecraft heading out into the void to achieve the desired goal of their makers. Sure, these machines might release other, smaller ...

What happened on his first-ever space walk. — -- Mission accomplished. Commander Scott Kelly and his American co-worker, Dr. Kjell Lindgren, completed their first-ever space walk today lasting ...