Picture a spacecraft returning to Earth after a long journey. The vehicle slams into the planet's atmosphere at roughly ...

The extreme conditions spacecraft have to survive to safely reenter Earth's atmosphere have been difficult to reproduce in ...

What actually happens to a spacecraft during its fiery last moments? That's the key question for the European Space Agency's ...

Russian Luch “inspector” satellites are suspected of shadowing European GEO spacecraft, raising fears of interception, ...

Satellites and spacecraft in the vast region between Earth and the moon and just beyond—called cislunar space—are crucial for ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

The launch window for SpaceX's next Starship launch, known as flight 11, is due to opens Monday, Oct. 13. SpaceX launches Starship test missions from its sprawling Starbase – the complex that doubles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Escapade mission, run by UC Berkeley, will get to the bottom of how solar radiation strips away the tattered Martian ...

China's first full-scale commercial crewed spacecraft test capsule Photo: Liang Rui/GT. InterstellOr, the only private ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth’s climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe. This year’s budget expires at the end of ...

China's space agency has announced it will return a damaged spacecraft docked on Tiangong space station to Earth without crew after a suspected debris strike left it unfit for flight. The three ...

Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left unscathed in the exercise. The European Space Agency (ESA) staged the exercise at ...