The Kennedy Space Center director didn’t mince words. “We stand at a pivotal moment,” Janet Petro told state lawmakers in ...

China set for its first one-year human spaceflight mission, confirms Pakistani astronaut flight China will begin its first one-year duration astronaut mission this year, while the first international ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: Inhauscreative/Getty Images) Before humans sent the first dogs and chimps into space, there was genuine fear: Can a ...

NASA's manned mission to moon 'Artemis 2' proceed for April launch ...

Before the first human could fly into space, the Soviet Union sent a total of 48 dogs into space to gain experience. Not every animal survived.

With the International Space Station nearing its planned retirement date at the end of the decade, NASA is turning to the orbital space station whiteboard. On Friday, it released a draft proposal ...

After the International Space Station is decommissioned, China and possibly Russia will have active space stations in low Earth orbit. America will not. The International Space Station (ISS) has been ...

Three Chinese astronauts were due to depart the Tiangong space station, reenter the atmosphere, and land in the remote desert of Inner Mongolia on Wednesday. Instead, officials ordered the crew to ...