South Korea Test Launches 1st Domestically Made Space Rocket South Korea has test launched its first domestically produced space rocket in what officials describe as an important step in...
New Crew Docks at China's First Permanent Space Station The new crew includes the first Chinese woman to board the Tiangong space station.
China Set to Send 3 Astronauts on Longest Crewed Mission Yet It will be China's longest crewed space mission and set a record for the most time spent in space by Chinese astronauts.
William Shatner Becomes the Oldest Human in Space After Blue Origin Flight William Shatner, the man who played Capt. Kirk on “Star Trek,” left the bonds of earth aboard a Blue Origin capsule and...
European-Japanese Space Mission Gets 1st Glimpse of Mercury The BepiColombo mission made the first of six flybys of Mercury on Friday.
Trailblazing Tourist Trip to Orbit Ends with Splashdown Strangers until March, the four spent six months training and preparing for potential emergencies during the flight.
SpaceX Launches 4 Amateurs on Private Earth-Circling Trip SpaceX's first private flight marked the first time a spacecraft circled Earth with an all-amateur crew and no professional...
Four Will Circle Earth on 1st SpaceX Private Flight For the first time in 60 years of human spaceflight, a rocket will blast into orbit with no professional astronauts on board...
Astronaut's Undisclosed Minor Medical Issue Delays Spacewalk Officials announced the postponement less than 24 hours before Mark Vande Hei -- a 54-year-old retired Army colonel -- was...
Space Station Supplies Launched With a Pizza Delivery for 7 The 8,200-pound shipment includes fresh apples, tomatoes and kiwi, along with a pizza kit.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...