A SpaceX Crew Dragon with the largest window ever to have flown to space has just launched to orbit for the third time.

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ... While not an alien spacecraft, 'Oumuamua was an interstellar ...

NASA spaceman Don Pettit demonstrated the tricky task of sipping from a special mug in microgravity on the International ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

Astronauts' hair care in space, as illustrated by Sunita Williams and Karen Nyberg, adapts to microgravity. Loose hair is common since gravity isn't a concern. Shower routines involve no-rinse ...

"But spacecraft really don't want to be switched off." Gaia has multiple redundant systems designed to allow it to recover from a host of potential disruptions in operation. That required a ...

Engineers are exploring propulsion methods that could enable longer-distance travel ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close flyby of the sun, the space agency announced earlier this week. The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 3.8 million miles (6.1 ...

A conception of the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter transiting the sun. Credit: ESA / Acknowledgement: Work performed by ATG medialab under contract for ESA Scientists are still unraveling ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its second science-gathering flyby of the sun, the space agency announced on Tuesday (March 25). | Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL ...