From monitoring Mercury to launching a new adventure to an icy moon of Jupiter, spacecraft and astronauts made great strides in 2024. Here are some of the highlights of this year in space. The moon has been a hot destination for space agencies and private ...

The Office of Space Commerce has rolled out its proposal for a “light touch” approach to mission authorization for new commercial space applications.

The mission, called Space Reactor-1 Freedom (SR-1 Freedom), is set to launch in December 2028. This mission aims to showcase the use of nuclear fission in space to power electric thrusters. While nuclear technology has been around for decades, it lacked the drive, purpose, destination, and leadership—until now.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you thought 2025 was an exciting year for spaceflight and cosmic discovery, just wait til 2026. The past year was one filled with monumental human missions to orbit, headline-grabbing ...

It's been more than 50 years since astronauts were last on the moon, and now NASA is sending a crew back on a fly-by mission for Artemis II. The mission will bring in experts from across the country, and that includes scientists in Colorado at the National ...

SpaceX launched a pair of Falcon 9 vehicles carrying Starlink satellites on the night of Nov. 14-15, scheduling the launches to work around temporary FAA restrictions. Credit: SpaceX Space missions are entering a new era defined by complexity: more sensors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist's rendering shows the ESCAPADE probes near Mars. NASA After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today successfully completed its first dedicated launch for the European Space Agency (ESA),