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SpaceX’s newly launched capsule with four astronauts has arrived at the International Space Station

Four astronauts aboard Crew Dragon are on their way to the International Space Station after an historic launch at Kennedy Space Center. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program “charters” flights to the ISS on a rocket and in a capsule built by SpaceX, a private vendor. Navy Cmdr. Victor Glover, one of the three U.S. astronauts, will also be the first Black...

Southern California-based SpaceX is on the verge of making history as it prepares for a joint launch with NASA that will bring four astronauts to the International Space Station.

The upcoming Falcon-9 launch is in essence, it’s a “charter flight” to the International Space Station on a rocket and in a capsule built by a private company.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to lift off Saturday will carry four astronauts to the International Space Station, kicking off a new era in NASA history.

Scientists say the moon’s shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water in more places and in larger quantities than previously suspected

A trio of space travelers has safely returned to Earth after a six-month mission on the International Space Station

That’s one small scoop for humanity. NASA made history Tuesday after a spacecraft successfully collected samples from the surface of an asteroid during a carefully orchestrated, hourslong maneuver in orbit. After spending nearly two years circling the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used its robotic arm to gather pieces of the space rock that will subsequently be sent...

The Orionid meteor shower — one of two showers every year caused by Halley’s Comet’s return to the inner atmosphere — is peaking this week. Here’s the best way to see it.

A NASA spacecraft circling an ancient asteroid 200 million miles away is about to reach out and make contact.

A Russian-US trio of astronauts has launched to the International Space Station.

An icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international effort to study the high Arctic has returned to its home port in Germany

What looks like an asteroid may just be an old rocket from a failed moon-landing mission more than 50 years ago.

NASA’s first new space potty in decades is getting a not-so-dry run at the International Space Station before flying to the moon.

In 1961, President Kennedy vowed to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade and expanded Americans’ ideas about the possibilities of space exploration. How will the 2020 election, and the president it puts in power for the next four years, decide our future in space?

An asteroid about the size of a school bus is expected to “safely zoom past earth” on Thursday, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. The “2020 SW” asteroid, which scientists believe based on its brightness to be about 15-30 feet in size, will travel about 13,000 miles above Earth’s surface, JPL reported. “Although it’s not on an...

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps will join astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada as a crew member on the first operational flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), the agency announced Tuesday. The six-month expedition, which is planned to launch in 2021, will make Epps the first Black woman to live and work in space for an...

In a tweet Sunday, NASA said an asteroid expected to pass by close to Earth on Nov. 2 , a day before the upcoming presidential election, “poses no threat” to the planet.

Two NASA astronauts have returned to Earth in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown carried out by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company

NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday completing the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit.