Spaceflight

SpaceX wants to bring Super Heavy, the giant first stage of the two-stage Starship system, down directly on the launch stand shortly after liftoff.

You could be the next crew member on the International Space Station with the VR app "Space Explorers: The ISS Experience."

The White House has laid out a plan for overhauling the federal government's planetary-protection rules, which work to prevent contamination between Earth and other potentially habitable worlds.

Charles “Chuck” Yeager, who has died aged 97, epitomised the movie test pilot of the 1940s and 1950s.

Astronauts in space found a way to ring in 2021 on New Year's Eve in their own way: a ball drop in zero gravity.

From Mars to asteroids, robots, humans and much more, we'll see space exploration continue to expand across the solar system.

Arianespace launched a new reconnaissance satellite for the French military on Tuesday (Dec. 29), marking the launch provider's final mission of 2020.

Here's a list of 7 intriguing objects — and a few reptiles — that made headlines for falling from the sky.

Check out the craziest rocket failures of 2020.

NASA's quest to put boots back on the moon will likely get less urgent after President-elect Joe Biden takes office next month.

SpaceX launched two crewed missions to the space station and sent a prototype of its Starship Mars vehicle high into the Texas skies this year, among other milestones.

While 2020 was a difficult year around the world with the challenges that have come with the coronavirus pandemic, space continued to reach new heights.

The joint U.S.-European Solar Orbiter spacecraft had an appointment with Venus this morning, the first in a series of planetary flybys to hone the probe's orbit on its journey to the sun.

Capella Space's first fully operational satellite has snapped some breathtaking images of Earth during its first few months in orbit.

Private company SpaceX launched SN8, a prototype of its Starship spacecraft, designed to go to the Moon and Mars, on December 10.

Astronauts on the International Space Station are sending Christmas tidings to the people of Earth with a message of hope in a year challenged by a global pandemic.

SpaceX dropped an early Christmas present to space fans everywhere this week with an epic recap of its first high-altitude Starship test launch.

NORAD and AGI are tracking Santa's flyby of the International Space Station, which comes just in time for Christmas during the station's 20th anniversary year of crewed missions.