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Artist's illustration of NASA's Space Launch System megarocket launching the Orion crew capsule.

NASA's 1st SLS Megarocket Launch to the Moon Could Be Delayed to 2021

By Hanneke Weitering

NASA is officially targeting 2020 for the first test flight of its long-delayed Space Launch System megarocket, but it may not launch until mid-2021, an agency official said.

An artist's concept of China's planned Mars lander and rover on the surface of the Red Planet. The mission launches in 2020.

This is the 1st Photo of China's Mars Explorer Launching in 2020

By Leonard David

Diagram showing the ExoMars 2020 parachute deployment sequence.

European-Russian ExoMars Rover Team in 'Race Against the Clock' to Fix Parachutes for 2020 Launch

By Mike Wall

The European-Russian ExoMars 2020 mission will have to find some parachute fixes fast if it wants to be ready for launch next summer.

Amy Ross, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, left, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, second from left, watch as Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), and Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival Systems Project Manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing the Orion Crew Survival System suit, right, wave after being introduced by the administrator, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

NASA Just Unveiled the Spacesuit to be Worn by First Woman on the Moon

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA on Tuesday (Oct. 15) unveiled new prototypes of the spacesuits that will be worn by the first woman to walk on the moon.

The Association of Space Explorers' XXXII Planetary Congress in Houston, Texas is bringing together astronauts and cosmonauts to "Celebrate Apollo, Inspire the Future."

Space Explorers From Around the World Gather for Planetary Congress

By Robert Z. Pearlman

A student-built rocket lifts off from Spaceport America in New Mexico for the third annual Spaceport America Cup in June 2019.

Calling All Student Rocketeers! Spaceport America Cup Applications Are Due Friday

By Hanneke Weitering

Students around the world are wrapping up design ideas for experimental rockets to compete in the fourth annual Spaceport America Cup, the largest intercollegiate rocket engineering contest on Earth.

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.