Plenty more launches are to come, including another test of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket, which exploded while in flight ...

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

Setbacks aside, the Soviet Union was then far ahead of the USA in the space race, launching the first satellite, Sputnik, into space in October 1957, then the first living organism, a dog named ...

Headlines of the 1950s and '60s seemed to indicate that the Soviet Union was light-years ahead of the U.S. throughout much of the space race. But behind the scenes, a very different story was ...

Scientists are still figuring out the long-term health effects of spending a lot of time in space, but decades of data show that astronauts undergo physical changes after even a brief period.

"These space and cyber technologies are raising the likelihood that war, or at least its ripple effects, will land on America's doorstep. And those ripple effects, I think, are much more likely ...

The pair was supposed to be in space for 10 days. A SpaceX ship is expected to bring them back in mid-March. Other effects, once an astronaut gets home, include dizziness and nausea, Chiao said.

Two of the world's richest and most powerful men have launched two of the world's largest rockets this week in an escalation of their corporate space race. This week SpaceX launched Falcon 9 ...

Although outside his craft for only a little over 12 minutes (filmed in colour for maximum propaganda effect), his suit ... as often in the early days of the space race, playing catch-up.