Flying Astrobee robots being tested on the ISS could give rise to incredible guardian spacecraft that protect the station ...

After adjusting to microgravity—and getting through a few bouts of vomiting—the astronauts got to work in polar orbit.

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

SpaceX made history on April 1 with its private Fram2 mission. For the first time ever, a crew orbited the Earth’s poles.

There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

The Lane 1 awards are part of the Space Force's launch plan that focuses on new or smaller companies that can grow into ...

The main "first" of this mission was that they were the first people to orbit around the planet's poles. No other human has ...

The list of countries to achieve their own successful orbital space launch is a short one, almost as small as the exclusive club of states that possess nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union was first ...

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. Collisions with spacecraft risks disrupting critical navigation and ...

The US Space Force has outlined plans to test a new method of keeping satellites in orbit for longer: mid-orbit refueling. The tests will take place in 2026 and 2027 and will involve proposed ...

The Fram2 astronauts launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A on a stormy Monday night. Here's what we know about this ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.