Space News

Later this year, if all goes well, the International Space Station will receive a very important delivery: a new and improved toilet system.

The emergency preparedness activities now underway to combat the coronavirus pandemic offer insight about our readiness to deal with a dangerous incoming asteroid, experts say.

Two researchers investigated the dynamics of Saturn's churning atmosphere to figure out what sorts of planetary fluid dynamics are creating its mystifying hexagon.

When SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space Saturday (June 13), it delivered 58 Starlink satellites and three Planet SkySats into orbit. It also looked amazing.

Japanese space startup Interstellar Technologies Inc. failed to reach space with its latest sounding rocket launch, the flight of Momo-F5, from Taiki Town, Hokkaido this weekend.

Young people who are “hooked” on watching fantasy or reading science fiction may be on to something.

The head of Russia's space program, Dmitry Rogozin, published a lengthy op-ed expressing mixed feelings about the recent SpaceX Demo-2 launch to the International Space Station.

More than 8,500 active-duty Air Force service members have volunteered to join the U.S. Space Force — the nation's newest military branch.

The Starlink constellation is growing fast.

Rocket Lab's 12th mission finally got off the ground early this morning (June 13) following a 2.5-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The last-quarter moon will make a close approach to the Red Planet in the predawn sky on Saturday (June 13), providing a celestial treat for early birds and night owls.

Leland Melvin says there was a night when he could have wrongfully been put in jail, stopping any chance of him flying twice in space as a NASA astronaut later in his career.

An ocean observation satellite soared into space from China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the country's north Shanxi Province on Thursday (June 11).

In the next 24 hours, rockets from Interstellar Technologies, Rocket Lab and SpaceX will launch from three different countries in a space age triple-header. Here's how to watch.

NASA has picked Kathy Lueders to lead its Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, the office working to get astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars.

The first-ever all-female 45th Weather Squadron will be assessing the weather for SpaceX's upcoming Starlink launch.

NASA's pioneering New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far that its view of the cosmos is noticeably different than ours.

The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 58 new Starlink satellites to join its ever-growing broadband internet megaconstellation in orbit Saturday (June 13).