Spaceflight

On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 p.m. at night.

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg deployed a new solar array outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk today (June 9).

NASA is worried that SpaceX's giant new Starship vehicle won't be ready to carry Artemis astronauts to the surface of the moon in late 2025, as currently planned.

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

SpaceX's Dragon capsules have spent more time in orbit, and launched toward the International Space Station more often, than NASA's space shuttle fleet.

Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

The Pentagon has confirmed it is buying SpaceX's Starlink broadband services to provide communications in Ukraine.

Aerospace giant Boeing faces a federal lawsuit accusing it of intellectual property theft and misuse of critical components involved in assembling NASA's Artemis moon rocket.

Long spaceflights can cause astronauts' ventricles — cavities in the brain that hold cerebrospinal fluid — to enlarge by up to 25%. And it apparently takes years for the swelling to go down.

United Launch Alliance's next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket took a big step toward its debut launch, acing a crucial engine firing today (June 7).

Parabolic flights produce reduced gravity by following a wild trajectory of steep climbs and nerve-racking dives. The experience is out of this world, but for this reporter it had its challenges.

The Rocket Lab's pioneering private mission to Venus, which had been set to launch last month, has been delayed until at least 2025.

A new study will monitor the short- and long-term impacts of rocket launches on endangered wildlife near California's Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Space.com's reporter Tereza Pultarova takes part in a research flight simulating lunar gravity in this original documentary.

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is on track to hit its new launch target of October 2023, a year later than originally planned, an independent review has found.

A robotic SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrived at the International Space Station early Tuesday morning (June 6).

Statistics show that women are better astronauts than men, but gender diversity is key to a successful Mars mission, experts say.

The launch of Russia's robotic Luna 25 moon lander has been postponed from July 13 and will now lift off no earlier than August.

A SpaceX Dragon capsule launched toward the International Space Station today (June 5) carrying about 7,000 pounds of supplies.