A growing number of private-sector businesses are entering the space industry by launching small satellites, opening new ...

At 16:40 on November 14, the return capsule of the Shenzhou-21 manned spacecraft successfully landed at the Dongfeng landing site in north China. The spacecraft took less than 5.5 hours from ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. Ahead of Glenn's spaceflight, Panorama was in Cocoa Beach, to gauge the ...

Data from Sentinel-6B will continue a decades-long record of sea surface height, helping to improve coastal planning, protect ...

A streak of burning Falcon 9 debris lit up the horizon as it re-entered the atmosphere over California. Drone footage shows the fiery re-entry and controlled descent of a SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage ...

In 2026, a first-of-its-kind spacecraft—launched on a rocket dropped out of a plane—will attempt to save NASA’s Swift ...

Shenzhou 21 successfully landed with its three occupants November 14, but that still left three astronauts on the Tiangong ...

SpaceX is set to launch 140 commercial payloads to Sun-synchronous orbit on its sixth rideshare mission of the year, ...

An Earth-orbiting NASA telescope is slowly falling out of the sky, with a 90% chance of uncontrolled reentry by the end of ...

Chinese astronauts who were set to return Nov. 5 had been in space since April. But the Shenzhou 20 spacecraft meant to carry ...

Three Chinese astronauts were left waiting in space for a ride home. Americans and Russians have faced the same problem in ...

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...