Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sierra Space Corporation have developed a new heat shield based on venerable 1980s Space ...

As SpaceX gears up for the sixth test flight of its mighty Starship, the company has shared images of the rocket out on the launchpad at the Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The images capture ...

When it comes to space exploration, “I would think that this next [Trump] Administration is going to be a continuation of the ...

Blue Origin has successfully launched a new human-rated capsule loaded with with sci-fi cargo and thousands of postcards ...

A Long March rocket with a Shenzhou-19 spacecraft atop takes off from ... the target date back to 2026 earlier this year. The new Chinese crew will perform spacewalks and install new equipment ...

Solstar employees in front of Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew capsule for 2018 test. Credit: Blue Origin In addition to the Deke Space Communicator, Solstar is designing the Continuous Spacecraft ...

Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore are still in space despite the recent launch of a return capsule from ... home on—landed in New Mexico without any crew on board due to safety ...

Since launching on March 3 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crew had spent 235 days in space, a new duration record ... as they exited the Dragon spacecraft. The crew was initially ...

SpaceX's Crew-8 successfully returned to Earth ... But their homecoming was stalled by problems with Boeing’s new Starliner astronaut capsule, which came back empty in September because of ...

The capsule was hoisted onto the recovery ship where the four astronauts had routine medical checks. Soon after splashdown, a NASA astronaut had a “medical issue" and the crew was flown to a ...