China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular.

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station crews are planning for three SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches within less than a week's span on Florida's Space Coast.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Europe's Ariane 6 rocket takes off, in Kourou, French Guiana, July 9, 2024. European Space Agency (ESA)/Manuel Pedoussaut/Handout ...

What exists beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon, Callisto? This is what a recent study accepted by The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 on a mission to study Jupiter and its moons. It also flew by Venus and ...

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Liftoff occurred at 12:01 a.m. EST on Wednesday (Dec. 17). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the latest ...

Images from NASA's Galileo mission reveal a tantalizing starburst-like feature. Scientists call it a "wall demon." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Europe expects to declare the Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) operational in 2026, missing a goal for the signal to be declared ready before the end of this year. The space segment, including ...

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China was forced to postpone the return of three astronauts from its Tiangong space station following a suspected collision with space debris that appears to have struck the spacecraft they were ...