A health scare prompted the first ever early return from the International Space Station for a medical reason. Does it change ...

Artist rendering of the X-37B conducting an aerobraking maneuver using the drag of Earth’s atmosphere. (Boeing Space) Ten months into its latest and largely classified mission, the Space Force’s X-37B ...

From household robots to reusable rockets, a new wave of breakthrough inventions is redefining what humans can do in space and on Earth. These advances are not isolated gadgets, they are tightly ...

Fly me to the moon!

Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling ...

Back in 1979, Houston became home to a program that searched for ways to create less debris in space and track and remove existing debris. More than four decades later, NASA has called the growing ...

Space exploration is no longer a prerogative of national space agencies, it is becoming more commercialized, with U.S. and international companies working together on key programs like NASA Artemis, ...