Spacecraft

WATCH: Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes on launch pad

The US Federal Aviation Administration said it was aware of the incident, but added that it was outside its scope and did not impact air traffic in the region.

Blue Origin New Glenn explodes at Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, on May 29, 2026.
Artemis II astronauts, NASA Commander Reid Wiseman, NASA Pilot Victor Glover, NASA Mission Specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, flank U.S. President Donald Trump as he speaks in the Oval Office, Washington, DC, US, April 29, 2026.

Trump welcomes NASA Artemis II astronauts to Oval Office after Moon mission

NASA ASTRONAUT and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon April 2, 2026.

WATCH: Artemis makes lunar flyby as moon mission breaks record for human distance from earth

SPACEX STARLINK 5 satellites are pictured in the sky seen from Svendborg on South Funen, Denmark April 21, 2020.

Starlink to reconfigure satellites into lower, safer orbit in 2026


Russia's Luna-25 smashes into moon in failure

Russia's moon mission failed after the Luna-25 spacecraft slammed into the moon.

 A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, August 11, 2023.

Russia's lunar lander hit by unspecified 'emergency situation'

The nature of the "emergency situation" and how it may impact the lander's landing on the moon is as of yet unclear.

 Specialists take part in preparations ahead of the launch of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 mission to search for ice near the south pole of the moon, at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region, Russia, in this handout photo published August 1, 2023.

The Israeli flag was taken onto the first commercial space flight

Keisha Schahaff, who is married to an Israeli husband, and her 18-year-old daughter, Ana Mayers, wore the flags of Scotland and Israel on their suits.

RICHARD BRANSON prepares to spray champagne after flying with a crew in Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane ‘VSS Unity’ on July 11.

Russia launches lunar lander in race to find water on moon

The Russian lunar mission, the first since 1976, is racing against India, which launched its Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander last month, and more broadly with the United States and China.

 US Cygnus and Russian Soyuz spaceships

Lockheed gets US defense contract to develop nuclear-powered spacecraft

Lockheed Martin said the project is an advancement in propulsion technology – from chemical propulsion engines to nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) engines.

Lockheed Martin's logo is seen during Japan Aerospace 2016 air show in Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2016.

UAE launches Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt

The mission would extend 10 times past that of the Mars mission, with a total estimated travel distance of 5 billion Kilometers.

An H-2A rocket carrying the Hope Probe, developed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the Mars explore, rises into the air after blasting off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the southwestern island of Tanegashima, Japan, in this

Mystery Chinese spacecraft returns to Earth after 276 days

Commentators on Chinese social media have speculated that Beijing has been developing a spacecraft like the US Air Force's X-37B, an autonomous spaceplane that can remain in orbit for years.

A Long March-5B Y3 rocket, carrying the Wentian lab module for China's space station under construction, takes off from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan province, China, July 24, 2022.

Elon Musk's SpaceX postpones debut flight of Starship rocket system

SpaceX announced during the final minutes of the countdown that it was scrubbing the flight attempt for at least 48 hours, citing a pressurization issue in the lower-stage rocket booster.

SpaceX's Starship is seen ahead of its lift off from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on an orbital test mission near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. April 17, 2023.

NASA mission to Saturn aims to understand the chemistry of life

The Dragonfly mission will start its three year voyage to Titan, Saturn's titanic moon, in the year 2027.

NASA's planned Dragonfly rotorcraft lander approaches a site to explore on Saturn's moon

Russia launches spacecraft to rescue cosmonauts, astronaut stranded on ISS

An external coolant leak was detected on the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-22, rendering it inoperable for a standard return mission.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev conducts a spacewalk with Roscosmos cosmonaut Dmitry Petelin (not pictured) outside the International Space Station (ISS), November 17, 2022.