As a pathway for larger contracts, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command granted Rocket Lab $5 million in late March to expand its launch systems portfolio. Abroad, the U.K.’s Ministry of ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

SpaceX was facing a poor forecast for its launch attempt of a European satellite on the Space Coast, but the skies cleared ...

We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4th, 1957.

NASA is preparing for severe cuts under the White House’s proposed budget for 2026. The budget, released in May, highlights ...

The landing attempt As the 3:17 p.m. ET deadline to land on the moon came and went, mission control center (MCC) members tried to establish communications with the HAKUTO-R lunar lander named ...

"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...

Overall, the budget proposes reducing the agency's annual budget from $24.9 billion to $18.8 billion. Newsweek has contacted ...

NASA engineers are recreating the challenging lighting conditions of the Moon’s South Pole to prepare astronauts for the ...

Space explorations go far beyond anything that any of us has imagined. But it also comes with a staggering price that costs ...

Rocks found on Earth may have originated from Mercury: a potential breakthrough for astronomers.

While the Outer Space Treaty (OST) provides vital foundations for tackling this global issue, the principles it first laid out in 1967 need to be further refined to produce rules that we can apply in ...