from China's asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are some of the biggest space missions ahead. China is set to launch the Tianwen-2 mission to sample near-Earth ...
Tariq Malik This image, taken on Dec. 18, shows NASA's new Deep Space Station 23 reflector dish as it is lowered into place as the space agency upgrades its iconic Deep Space Network, the ...
China said two of its astronauts spent nine hours outside the Tiangong Space Station. The longest previous spacewalk, by Americans, was eight hours and 56 minutes. New findings suggest that an ...
The company hopes it will carry cargo to the International Space Station for the first time this year.Credit...Jef Janis/NASA Our species called this latest 366-day journey around the sun “2024 ...
Jan. 1, 2025 — Astronomers pinned down the origins of at least one fast radio burst, a brief and brilliant explosion of radio waves emitted by an extremely compact object. The team's novel ...
The two astronauts were left behind on the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2024 after propulsion issues with their spacecraft meant their eight-day mission had to be extended.
But sometimes luck just isn’t on your side, like when you agree to help a space station deal with a plague and one of your crew gets sick. But every failed attempt is a complete story full of ...