Spacecraft

WATCH: Artemis makes lunar flyby as moon mission breaks record for human distance from earth

The Artemis II crew, flying in their Orion capsule since launching from Florida last week, awoke around 10:50 a.m. for their sixth flight day to a recorded message from late astronaut Jim Lovell.

NASA ASTRONAUT and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon April 2, 2026.
SPACEX STARLINK 5 satellites are pictured in the sky seen from Svendborg on South Funen, Denmark April 21, 2020.

Starlink to reconfigure satellites into lower, safer orbit in 2026

This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera, July 21, 2025.

NASA releases images of comet 3I/ATLAS, rejects alien spacecraft 'rumors'

Astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie attend a see-off ceremony for the Shenzhou-20 spaceflight mission at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China April 24, 2025.

Chinese astronauts' return delayed to Earth after debris hits spacecraft


China launches second space station module, Wentian

China began constructing the space station in April 2021 with the launch of the Tianhe module, the main living quarters, in the first of 11 crewed and uncrewed missions in the undertaking.

 Rescue workers carry Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang out of a return capsule after astronauts return to earth following the Shenzhou-13 manned space mission

The spacecraft Gaia has identified two giant new planets in the Milky Way

Tel Aviv University team who led the research say Gaia’s innovative technology is sparking a true revolution in the world of astronomy.

 Artist's impression of a gas giant planet forming in the disc around the young star HD 100546.

Remember the rocket that crashed into the moon? It left a mark or two

NASA has discovered two small craters on the moon's surface resulting from the rocket crash.

A rocket body impacted the Moon on March 4, 2022, near Hertzsprung crater, creating a double crater roughly 28 meters wide in the longest dimension. LROC NAC M1407760984R; image enlarged 3x

NASA outsources $3.5 billion contracts for next-generation spacesuits

The companies would own the spacesuits, and NASA would become a customer, handing over the reins for what has already been a costly, years-long development for a new spacesuit design.

 The next-generation spacesuit being designed by Collins Aerospace and partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering as part of a NASA contract awarded in June 2022.

Israeli astronaut to return to space with 35 experiments

Israel will soon be sending the Rakia mission into space, with astronaut Eitan Stibbe set to take an unprecedented 35 different experiments to the International Space Station.

 Israeli astronaut  Eitan Stibbe.

Could wormholes be used for future space travel? A new study explains

A theory proposes that wormholes, if they exist, might be more stable than previously suggested.

 Wormhole corresponding to the maximal analytic extension of the Reissner Nordstrom metric.

Former Virgin Galactic CEO to fly to space - CNBC

Lori Garver, a former deputy administrator of NASA was present at the party and told CNBC that Branson said, "George will be leading our next flight."

Guests assemble before billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson departs with his crew for travel to the edge of space at Spaceport America

Sheba hospital in space: Exploring the final frontier of medical science

Sheba Medical Center set to launch medical research into outer space with Rakia mission

Axiom Space Station

Chinese spacecraft successfully lands on surface of Mars

The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on the Southern Utopia Plain, "leaving a Chinese footprint on Mars for the first time," Xinhua said

The first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is seen after its landing on Mars February 18, 2021.

Chinese rocket Long March 5B crashes near Maldives

The rocket landed at longitude 72.47 degrees east and latitude 2.65 degrees north, which placed it right next to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.

Long March-5B Y2 rocket, carrying the core module of China's space station Tianhe, takes off from Wenchang