The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is flying a planetary probe to Mars’s moon Phobos, taking advantage of this year’s window to reach the Red Planet on an ideal trajectory, one that ...

SpaceX is advancing toward its next two Starship missions as the company looks to close out 2026. Flight 15 is targeting November, with the goal of catching both the booster and the Ship. Flight 16 is ...

With both solid rocket boosters fully stacked and all four RS-25 engines now installed on the Core Stage, NASA is preparing to mate the stage to the boosters and form the short stack that will roll to ...

PLD Space has entered a new phase ahead of the first demonstration flight of its Miura 5 orbital launcher. The company is beginning system-level test campaigns on a fully integrated second stage while ...

SpaceX launched a Transporter rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 from California, on the same day as the Crew-13 and NROL-97 Falcon Heavy missions were scheduled out of Florida. This is the first ...

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launched the classified NROL-97 payload for the United States National Reconnaissance Office. Falcon Heavy is scheduled to liftoff from 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 11:53 ...

SpaceX made significant strides in the Starship program during Flight 14. Booster 21, despite losing a few engines, still completed its entire flight. Ship 41 reached orbit despite losing a Raptor ...

One veteran astronaut and three first-time flyers began a six-month mission to the International Space Station as part of the NASA and SpaceX Crew-13 mission. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke ...

Four months after Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad, the company continues to show quick progress as it attempts to return to flight before year-end. With roughly three months ...

Crew-12’s crew spent their last days on the Station preparing for their return, packing essential items, testing their SpaceX pressure suits, and preparing the Station for the arrival of their ...

NASA and Boeing have laid out a revised path for Starliner that puts an uncrewed engineering flight first, a crewed return in 2028, extra station missions on the books, and a new launcher in the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently started investigating options for a European-led space station. The announcement follows “A Call to Boost European Space Exploration,” which ESA’s member ...