Two NASA astronauts are expected to come home this month after being stranded in space since June. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, but their ...

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Space stocks are climbing in premarket trade on Monday, after the private space company Firefly Aerospace successfully landed on the Moon. The Cedar Park, Texas-based company said that its ...

“This incredible achievement demonstrates how NASA and US companies are leading the way in space exploration for the benefit of all,” Janet Petro, NASA’s acting administrator, said in a stat ...

Other companies have similar aspirations. The US space company Axiom Space, best known for organizing short trips to the International Space Station for private astronauts, intends to launch a ...

This trip to space, which had been scheduled for Monday night, was to be largely a do-over of the seventh flight, which launched in January. In that test, Starship’s mammoth booster, or the ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has successfully touched down on the moon, in a pivotal moment for private space travel. The size of a compact car, the four-legged lander is carrying 10 ...

Katy Perry is going to space. The award-winning "E.T." and "Firework" singer will fly on a firework of her own when she joins the first all-female crew to launch on a Blue Origin New Shepard ...

Crewed space travel isn’t just an engineering feat. It’s a test of the endurance and resilience of the human body. In microgravity, astronauts' bodies undergo dramatic changes: muscles weaken, bones ...

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question. Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a ...

A modest NASA space telescope with grand ambitions is scheduled to soon launch into an orbit around Earth. The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the ...