The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — The U.S. Department of the Air Force gave SpaceX approval to build a launch and landing pad for its Starship at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch ...

One pilot was able to make an emergency landing at San Juan after he repeated “mayday” to an air controller three times.

Blue Origin’s NS-37 mission will make history by sending Michaela Benthaus, a wheelchair user, to space. The suborbital flight aboard New Shepard crosses the Kármán line, highlighting inclusivity, ...

Our Solar System contains tens of thousands of potentially dangerous asteroids that could wipe out an entire city, or worse. In Washington, a NASA office is leading efforts to spot and neutralize ...

Jared Isaacman, private astronaut and Elon Musk ally, is confirmed as NASA administrator ahead of the Artemis II mission.

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat ...

Human-rating means designing, testing and approving every space system to be safe enough for people. It covers the rocket, ...

Human-rating emerges as a crucial process ensuring that space systems like LVM-3 can safely carry humans by adding redundancy ...

The launch pad of Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan sustained significant damage following a botched Soyuz launch last week. While the Soyuz MS-28 crew on board the rocket, ...