NASA is five weeks away from putting astronauts aboard a new commercial crew capsule. May 1 is the target launch date for Boeing’s CST-100...

WASHINGTON — Several companies that launched their first spacecraft on a rideshare mission earlier this month are reporting varying degrees of success, from full...

The last time Patricia Cooper attended a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, she wasn’t sure what she was getting into. It was January...

Two days after a rare last-second launch abort, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted off Saturday on a flight to the International Space Station, carrying...

WASHINGTON — NASA and Boeing say they are working towards the first crewed flight of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in early May, a final...

Orbit Fab, a company developing in-space depots to refuel satellites, said this week its fuel interface has completed flight qualification and is ready to...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is looking to bolster its ability to detect and track potential threats in the geosynchronous equatorial orbit, a critical...

Update 8:21 a.m. ET: Roscosmos aborted the MS-25 launch attempt. A new launch date has not been set, but could be as soon as...

SpaceX is gearing up for the next phase of launches from Cape Canaveral that is, in a way, a callback to a previous era...

Update: Liftoff occurred on time at 4:55 p.m. EDT and was followed by separation of the Cargo Dragon vehicle a little less than 12...

WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency has awarded three contracts worth a quarter of a billion dollars to develop a pair of navigation missions,...

Margaret Harris reviews Cosmonaut: a Cultural History by Cathleen S Lewis <a href="https://zephyrnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/never-mind-the-right-stuff-heres-the-red-stuff-how-yuri-gagarin-and-the-cosmonauts-shaped-soviet-space-culture-physics-world-1.jpg" data-fancybox data-src="https://zephyrnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/never-mind-the-right-stuff-heres-the-red-stuff-how-yuri-gagarin-and-the-cosmonauts-shaped-soviet-space-culture-physics-world-1.jpg" data-caption="Out of this world As the first human to orbit...