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Jared Isaacman emerged first, joining a small elite group of spacewalkers who until now had included only professional astronauts from a dozen countries.

A billionaire has blasted into space for a record-setting mission set to be the world's first private spacewalk.

NASA on Monday approved next month's launch to Jupiter's moon Europa after reviewing the spacecraft's ability to withstand the intense radiation there.

NASA's two test pilots stayed behind at the space station, their home until next year.

NASA's two stuck astronauts will return home in February, eight months after launching on what should have been a weeklong test flight.

Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids, new study has found.

NASA's Nick Hague and Russian Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch in September aboard a SpaceX rocket for the orbiting laboratory.

The boarding of the vessel carrying 1 million barrels of oil by rebel fighters was the most serious attack on Red Sea shipping in weeks.

The six-wheeled rover has spent the last three-and-a-half years roaming around the bottom of a crater.

The news comes after the space agency held a formal review to determine whether it would deem Boeing's Starliner vehicle safe enough to return home with its crew.

This is exactly what happens to your body when you're stuck in space.

A team of Australian scientists have built a Moon Rover to join NASA's mission to the moon in 2028.

The test pilots anticipated being away just a week or so. Now they might be stranded until February.

Likely a faint red star, the object was zooming along at a speed of about 600 kilometres per second.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams' planned eight-day mission has hit the two-month mark.

The Starliner remains docked at the ISS, with some saying it might not be safe to return with its crew.

Eta Carinae is thought to be the only star we can observe that emits natural laser light, but the mysteries don't end there.

The Curiosity rover has made its most unusual find to date on Mars: rocks made of pure sulphur.

Their important discovery could be hugely important for astronauts on future visits to the satellite.

The space station is expected to slam back into the planetary atmosphere at over 27,359 kilometres an hour.

NASA has had to again delay the return of Starliner crew Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams after thruster and helium problems.

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is continuing to explore the red planet, documenting everything it comes across with a high-quality navigational camera that continues to capture sights never before seen by humans.

The audio was misrouted from a training exercise happening down on Earth.

Seventy-five years ago today, a rhesus money was launched into space. He wasn't the last to leap into the void.

William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo, has been killed in a plane crash aged 90.

The trip by Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams was expected to take 25 hours, with an arrival Thursday.

Boeing has launched astronauts for the first time, belatedly joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA.

It collected samples that could provide insights into the less-explored far side of the moon.

Two NASA astronauts were strapped in the company's Starliner capsule when the countdown automatically was halted at 3 minutes and 50 seconds.

Just 40 light years away, Gliese 12b, which completes its orbit every 12.8 days, is practically in our galactic neighbourhood.

Ed Dwight has become the oldest person to rocket into space after hitching a ride on a Jeff Bezos spacecraft.

A small eruption of cooler material rising and then collapsing into the surface was filmed by the European Space Agency.

It has a mass nearly 33 times as that of the sun.

The mysterious cylindrical object was sent for analysis after it tore through a home in Florida last month.

In the very early hours of Tuesday morning, sky-gazers will get to glimpse a rare total solar eclipse. There's just one problem.

The space agency hopes to better understand some of the biggest mysteries about the sun.

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but Lunar-grown plants could become a reality.

The moon is littered with wreckage from failed landings over the years.

It puts the United States back on the Moon's surface for the first time since NASA's famed Apollo moonwalkers.

For anyone who has ever dreamed of living on Mars, NASA is seeking potential "Martians" for a simulated mission to the red planet.

Astronomers have discovered a "super-Earth," or a world larger than our planet, orbiting a star about 137 light-years away.

An exoplanet dubbed a "super-Earth" that may potentially be home to liquid water has been found 137 light years away.

The space agency says Asteroid 2008 OS7 is expected to come within 2.8 million kilometres of Earth

The phenomena is threatening to disrupt a new international space race.

Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when its spacecraft landed on the lunar surface early Saturday, officials said

NASA has unveiled a new plane that could soon replace the decommissioned Concorde.

A new space race is heating up as multiple countries set their sights on landing both robotic and crewed missions to explore the moon

A private company operating the first United States moon landing attempt in more than 50 years has admitted there is "no chance" of its spacecraft making a soft landing.

The first US lunar lander in more than 50 years has rocketed toward the moon, launching private companies on a space race.

From a barnacle-encrusted cylinder found on a remote beach to an ominous shard of metal discovered on farmland, space junk has turned up in unusual spots.