Bright yellow tulips make for a striking foreground for the launch of a new crew to the International Space Station.

The SpaceX trip will take Chun Wang and three others on a voyage over the North and South poles. It blasted off on Monday ...

(CNN) — Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant countermeasures, new research suggests. Substances such as ...

will generate most of the 8.8 million pounds of thrust needed to carry four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft. As the newest addition to the mobile launcher, the core stage is the largest ...

A privately-funded human space mission like no other will soon be launching from Cape Canaveral, taking four first-time astronauts on ... Dragon atop a Falcon 9 rocket. This will be the first ...

(CNN) — One of the most closely watched astronaut missions of recent memory came to a dramatic close this week as NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore made their triumphant return from the ...

(CNN) — Hamas fired rockets at Israel from Gaza Thursday, the militant group’s first response to Israel’s renewed offensive in the Strip that shattered the two-month-old ceasefire.

Sunita Williams return: The astronauts, part of the Crew-9 mission, ended their spaceflight as they splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean having braved the challenging re-entry through Earth's ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth after being at the International Space Station for more than nine months. The two splashed down off the Florida coast Tuesday evening ...

NASA's Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore made a gentle splashdown off the coast of Florida after an unexpectedly long stay on the space station. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...