Blue Origin experienced a major anomaly during a planned hot-fire test of its New Glenn rocket at Launch Complex-36 on Thursday evening, resulting in the loss of the vehicle’s booster and upper stage, ...

The Chinese space station Tiangong, permanently occupied since June 5, 2022, is about to receive a new set of crew members. Shenzhou 23 launched atop a Chang Zheng 2F (CZ-2F) from Site 91 at the ...

NASA has outlined the initial missions under its Moon Base initiative, rebranding existing Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) flights, while also awarding contracts for the first crewed Lunar ...

On Friday, May 22, 2026, at 5:30:21 pm CDT, Starship Flight 12 lifted off from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas. This stack, which comprised Ship 39 and Booster 19, was the first Block 3 stack to fly for the ...

Starship’s second stage has evolved through numerous iterations since the early test flights of SN8 and SN15. Ship 39, the first vehicle of Block 3, marks the latest update. While it does not ...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully conducted a rare Delta II launch on Saturday morning, at 6:22 am local, following a scrub on Thursday, along with a debonding of insulation on the booster ...

After 10 days, over 800,000 km traveled, and a historic flyby of the Moon, Artemis II returned to Earth on Friday evening. Orion CM-003 Integrity, which served as the home for the mission’s ...

NASA is deep into planning for Artemis III, a pivotal crewed mission in low Earth orbit scheduled for next year that will serve as a critical dress rehearsal for the agency’s return to the Moon. The ...

In a significant step forward for the search for signs of ancient life beyond Earth, NASA’s long-lived Curiosity rover has detected a suite of organic molecules in a Martian rock sample — including ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk has made his landmark speech, finally revealing details of his plans to make humanity a multiplanetary species. In a keynote speech at the International Astronautical Congress in ...

Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station (ISS) continues to perform its scheduled science and maintenance activities on humanity’s premier orbiting outpost, now more than a quarter-century ...

After years of development and testing, Virgin Orbit has conducted its first orbital launch attempt. The maiden flight of the air-launched LauncherOne rocket occurred on Monday, May 25, with the ...