Space Exploration

A Chinese space ship carrying a three-person crew has docked with its orbiting space station as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space.

Italian luxury fashion house Prada and space startup company Axiom Space unveiled the designs for a spacesuit that will be worn in the first NASA landing mission to the moon since 1972.

NASA launched a spacecraft to see if one of Jupiter’s moons can sustain life.

SpaceX launched its fifth test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday.

A new mini-moon — referred to scientifically as 2024 PT5 — is set to make a two-month orbit around the Earth this fall. Here’s what you need to know about the rare occurrence.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams discuss watching the Boeing Starliner fly home to Earth without them.

The Polaris Dawn crew floated through the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon capsule Thursday to perform the first ever private spacewalk.

A tech billionaire performed the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth on Thursday, a high-risk endeavor reserved for professional astronauts — until now. New Jersey-born entrepreneur Jared Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX to test the company’s new spacesuits on his chartered flight. The daring spacewalk also saw SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis going out once Isaacman was safely back…

Four private citizens orbiting Earth in a SpaceX capsule are set to perform the first private spacewalk on Thursday morning.

The stage is set for the first private spacewalk Thursday. Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman will pop out of the hatch of his orbiting SpaceX capsule, two days after blasting off from Florida on a chartered flight that lifted him and his crew higher than anyone since NASA’s moonwalkers.

SpaceX launched its Polaris Dawn crew from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Tuesday morning.

NASA says a small, harmless asteroid has burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. The asteroid dubbed 2024 RW1 was spotted by astronomers in Arizona on Wednesday and disintegrated several hours later over the coast of the Philippines.

A SpaceX capsule carrying four private citizens will have to wait to launch into space after a helium leak forced a launch delay until later this week at the earliest.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been on the International Space Stations since early June after arriving on the troubled Boeing Starliner.

Two astronauts, including one from Massachusetts, are waiting to come home from the International Space Station. Needham native Sunita Williams went into space aboard Boeing’s Starliner with fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore. They were supposed to be back on Earth in June, but their eight-day journey has turned into two months after issues with their spacecraft prevented a return. Then...

China’s Chang’e 6 probe has returned to Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first.

Researchers at MIT unveiled two new planet discoveries in May, in conjunction with other institutions. But what’s a “puffy Jupiter” anyways? 

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A potentially habitable exoplanet that is roughly similar in size to Earth has been found in a system located 40 light-years away, according to a new study.

A European space telescope is thrilling scientists with its latest peek at stars and galaxies. See the out-of-this world photos for yourself.

Space weather forecasters have issued a geomagnetic storm watch through Monday. They say a plasma burst from a solar flare could interfere with radio transmissions on Earth.