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Astronauts Christina Koch (left) and Jessica Meir are scheduled to spacewalk together on Oct. 17 or Oct. 18, 2019.

NASA Moves Up 1st All-Female Spacewalk to This Week

By Mike Wall

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will venture outside the International Space Station on Thursday or Friday (Oct. 17 or Oct. 18), agency officials said.

Artist's illustration of an astronaut in the xEMU spacesuit with Human Landing System in the background.

Watch Live Today! NASA Unveiling New Spacesuits for Orion and the Moon

By Space.com Staff

Meet the xEMU and Orion Crew Survival System.

The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn launches toward the ringed planet on a Titan IVB/Centaur rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Oct. 15, 1997.

On This Day in Space! Oct. 15, 1997: Cassini-Huygens Probe Launches to Saturn

By Hanneke Weitering

On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!

Illustration of a space debris field, as depicted in the film "Space Junk 3D."

Space Junk Menace: New Guidelines Urged to Help Fight Orbital Debris Threat

By Mike Wall

We can minimize the chances of a catastrophic cascade of collisions if satellite designers and operators follow a few simple rules, according to the Space Safety Coalition.

An image of the surface of Von Kármán crater taken by the Yutu 2 rover.

China's Chang'e 4 Completes 10 Lunar Days on Far Side of the Moon

By Andrew Jones

China's Chang'e 4 mission has completed 10 lunar days of activity on the far side of the moon, returning new images and carrying out science tasks.

Image of the Jules Verne ATV re-entry by the DC-8 aircraft over the Pacific Ocean.

The Biggest Spacecraft Ever to Fall Uncontrolled From Space

By Mike Wall

A rundown of some of the biggest spacecraft to smash into Earth beyond their operators' control.

A Boeing Starliner spacecraft is prepared for a planned December 2019 test flight to the International Space Station for NASA.

Boeing Aims to Launch Unpiloted Starliner Test Flight to Space Station in December

By Hanneke Weitering

Boeing has set a new launch date for the first orbital flight of its new commercial crew vehicle that will soon begin ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

Artist's illustration of Spacebit's small "walking rover," which is scheduled to launch toward the moon aboard Astrobotic's Peregrine lander in 2021.

UK's 1st Moon Rover to Launch in 2021

By Mike Wall

The United Kingdom is set to make its own giant leap soon, with a very small rover.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured this unprecedented image of two circumstellar disks, in which baby stars are growing, feeding with material from their surrounding birth disk.

Space Photos: The Most Amazing Images This Week!

By Doris Elin Urrutia

Here are our picks for the most amazing space photos of the week.

NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Christina Koch spent more than 6.5 hours replacing solar array batteries on the International Space Station during a spacewalk on Oct. 11, 2019, the day cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first spacewalker in history, died.

Astronauts Mourn Alexei Leonov, the World's 1st Spacewalker, While On a Spacewalk of Their Own

By Tariq Malik

Alexei Leonov, the world's first spacewalker, died in a Moscow hospital Friday (Oct. 11), but his legacy lives on aboard the International Space Station where the crew performed a spacewalk today.

Alexei Leonov, who performed the world's first spacewalk in 1965 and co-led the first joint mission between the U.S. and Russia, died on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 in Moscow at age 85.

Alexei Leonov: Spacewalk Pioneer

By Kimberly Hickok

Alexei Leonov was the first person to leave the relative safety of his spacecraft and experience the silence of space.

Alexei Leonov, who performed the world's first spacewalk in 1965 and co-led the first joint mission between the U.S. and Russia, died on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 in Moscow at age 85.

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Who Was First to Walk in Space, Dies at 85

By Robert Z. Pearlman

Leonov was on the short list to fly to the moon.

Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket falls away from its carrier plane during the company’s first-ever drop test on July 10, 2019.

Virgin Orbit Could Launch Polish Cubesat Mission to Mars in 2022

By Mike Wall

Polish scientists are developing a first-of-its-kind cubesat mission to Mars that could launch as early as 2022.

A Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket streaks toward space carrying NASA's Ionosphere Connection Explorer satellite, or ICON, on Oct. 10, 2019. The rocket was launched from mid-air after being dropped by an L-1011 Stargazer carrier plane that took off from the Skid Strip runway at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

NASA Launches Long-Delayed ICON Space Weather Satellite to Study Earth's Ionosphere

By Amy Thompson

NASA's long-awaited ICON mission has finally taken off after years of delays.

SpaceX's first Crew Dragon is seen at the International Space Station just before docking on March 3, 2019 during the Demo-1 test flight.

SpaceX Could Launch NASA Astronauts Into Space in Early 2020

By Mike Wall

Crew Dragon could carry astronauts to the International Space Station in the first quarter of next year, if testing continues to go well.

An Antares rocket sits on the launch pad, ready to launch the CRS-11 mission to the International Space Station on July 3, 2017. The CRS2 NG-12 mission, originally scheduled to launch on Oct. 21, has now been pushed back until at least Nov. 2.

Northrop Grumman Cargo Ship Launch to Space Station Delayed to November

By Chelsea Gohd

An Antares rocket originally scheduled to launch on October 21 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will now launch after November 2.

Construction on a low-cost vertical spaceport in the north of Scotland may commence within a year. This visualization pictures an Orbex rocket lifting off.

Scottish Spaceport to Begin Construction Soon

By Tereza Pultarova

Construction on a low-cost vertical spaceport in the north of Scotland may commence within a year, pending the approval of a planning application by a local authority.

A crane lifted the rocket-powered descent stage away from the Mars 2020 rover in a successful separation test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in September 2019.

NASA Tests Mars 2020 Rover's Sky Crane Landing Tech

By Samantha Mathewson

NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission has reached another milestone with a successful separation test of the descent stage that will deliver the six-wheeled robot to the surface of the Red Planet.

An artist's depiction of the ICON mission in orbit.

NASA's Long-Delayed Space Weather Mission Just Got Delayed Again

By Meghan Bartels

NASA's long-awaited space weather mission is making scientists wait again — ironically, due to terrestrial weather.

Artist's illustration of a Centaur upper-stage rocket approaching the moon with the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) shepherding satellite attached.

NASA Slammed a Rocket Body Into the Moon for Science 10 Years Ago Today

By Mike Wall

Ten years ago today (Oct. 9), NASA slammed a hunk of space junk into the moon, forever changing our perception of Earth's nearest neighbor.