The mission launched on April 23 to test sunlight-propelled space travel.
The embattled company has suffered numerous setbacks prior to reaching this stage, making us a bit nervous for Monday's crewed launch.
As it turns out, it's quite difficult to keep track of 27,000 objects flying around Earth orbit.
The orbiting observatory was recently shut down in November because one of its instruments started giving incorrect readings.
The draft resolution sponsored by the U.S. and Japan would have reaffirmed a ban already put forth by the Outer Space Treaty.
China's Tiangong space station partially lost power after its solar panels were struck by an unidentified object late last year.
We've been sending animals to space for nearly 75 years, leading to critically important science and no shortage of bizarre stories.
The potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way for an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in 2029.
At SpaceX's manufacturing facility in Brownsville, Texas, the injury rate is more than seven times the industry average.
It was a wild year for NASA, and the space agency has the pictures to prove it.
While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils.
The mission rode aboard Rocket Lab's Electron, reusing one of the rocket's boosters for the first time.
JPL engineers pinpointed the cause behind the anomaly and came up with a clever plan to rescue the iconic mission.
The two satellites came to within less than 30 feet of each other back in February, a distance far closer than initial estimates suggested.
Sierra Space's Ghost delivery platform is now in beta testing.
The Solar Sail mission will launch on April 23 on board Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle.
The space agency has been carrying out tests to make sure the repair work is safe for the ISS astronauts.
The shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric worldview during the scientific revolution influenced our perception of life beyond Earth.
It’s not clear how the space bacteria may affect the health of astronauts on the ISS—or humans back down on Earth.
Moonquakes were first detected on the Moon's near side during the Apollo era, but there's little information on the tremors taking place at the south pole.
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