NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the Moon in 1972 ...

Aboard the lander are two instruments: The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain, TRIDENT, and the Mass Spectrometer for Observing Lunar Operations, MSOLO. TRIDENT will dig down up to 3 ...

India will launch an ambitious space docking test flight on Monday (Dec. 30) that could set the stage for a future mission to ...

SpaceX completed back to back missions of two Falcon 9 rockets over the weekend, delivering 22 Starlink satellites and ...

Japan, Intuitive Machines, and SpaceX, while the Boeing Starliner stranded two American astronauts in space, the Polaris Dawn ...

A Space Race-era study from the Air Force proposed establishing a Moon base by 1969 armed with a "Lunar Based Earth ...

After three decades circling Earth, in 2031 the International Space Station (ISS) will be handed its last rites ...

Japan, Intuitive Machines, and SpaceX, while the Boeing Starliner stranded two American astronauts in space, the Polaris Dawn mission featured the ...

A Belfast-based astronomer has said a planetary defence mission with which he is involved will help scientists gather new ...

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.

From uncrewed lunar missions to the launch of the first private space station, here's a sneak peak at the space missions that ...

From historic firsts in reusable rockets to commercial spacewalks, 2024 was a transformative year in exploring the cosmos.