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After nearly five months onboard the International Space Station, an international crew of four astronauts began their descent back down to Earth on a SpaceX capsule Friday. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-astronauts-space-station-earth.html Space Exploration Sat, 09 Aug 2025 04:37:05 EDT news673933019 China has launched three astronauts into space to replace the crew on the Chinese Tiangong space station, marking a further step in the country's ambitions for a crewed mission to the moon and explore Mars. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-china-astronauts-crew-chinese-space.html Space Exploration Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:08:20 EDT news664708087 NASA said on Friday the Boeing Starliner's return to Earth from the International Space Station, which was scheduled for next week, has been delayed again. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-boeing-starliner-earth-delayed.html Space Exploration Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:00:25 EDT news638280017 A Boeing Starliner capsule carrying its first ever astronauts docked with the International Space Station on Thursday after overcoming unexpected challenges arising from thruster malfunctions and helium leaks. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-boeing-starliner-crew-aboard-iss.html Space Exploration Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:54:24 EDT news636951256 Virgin Galactic has grounded its current space tourism flight after a small part of its mothership unintentionally detached, the company announced Monday. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-virgin-galactic-grounds-space-tourism.html Space Exploration Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:30:01 EST news626444241 A private US lunar lander that has been leaking fuel throughout its journey is now headed for Earth and will likely burn up in the atmosphere, the company said Saturday. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-doomed-lunar-lander-earth-company.html Space Exploration Sun, 14 Jan 2024 13:34:41 EST news624461677 So, you've just put the finishing touches on upgrades to your spaceship, and now it can fly at almost the speed of light. We're not quite sure how you pulled it off, but congratulations! https://phys.org/news/2020-08-video-nasa-near-light-speed.html Space Exploration Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:46:42 EDT news517218398 Mars 2020, the spaceship carrying NASA's new rover Perseverance to the Red Planet, is experiencing technical difficulties and is running on essential systems only, the agency said Thursday. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-mars-bound-spaceship-experiencing-technical-issues.html Space Exploration Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:23:56 EDT news515341419 Black holes are among the most fascinating phenomena of outer space, and we're learning more about them all the time. Just last week, a group of astronomers published a paper documenting a rare visible collision of black holes, which produced a flash of light that allowed scientists to see the event from Earth. https://phys.org/news/2020-06-theoretical-cosmologist-large-black-holes.html Astronomy Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:40:01 EDT news512731950 Virgin Galactic's spaceship VSS Unity landed in the New Mexico desert on Friday, marking its first glide flight from Spaceport America as the company moves toward commercial operations. https://phys.org/news/2020-05-virgin-galactic-glide-flight-mexico.html Space Exploration Fri, 01 May 2020 16:49:10 EDT news507570546 Virgin Galactic's next passenger spaceship has reached a major construction milestone, the company said Wednesday. https://phys.org/news/2020-01-virgin-galactic-spaceship-milestone.html Space Exploration Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:40:09 EST news497709602 An unmanned Russian spacecraft carrying more than three tons of cargo has set a record time for a trip to the International Space Station, docking with the orbiting outpost in three hours and 21 minutes. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-russian-ship-space-station.html Space Exploration Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:14:12 EDT news473588048 How do you build a spaceship? It's not easy – because space is hard. It's endless vacuum, hot and cold at the same time, streaked with radiation – and you have to fly at eight kilometres per second just to get there. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-video-spaceships.html Space Exploration Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:58:14 EDT news473331491 It's the first time a visitor from another star system has been seen nearby. But what is it? An asteroid, a comet … or an alien artifact? https://phys.org/news/2018-12-radio-artificial-emissions-oumuamua.html Astronomy Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:50:43 EST news463222235 Virgin Galactic says the latest glide test of its space tourism rocket plane was a success, nearly reaching the speed of sound high over California. https://phys.org/news/2018-01-virgin-galactic-7th-glide-spacecraft.html Space Exploration Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:33:09 EST news434986384 SpaceX's first-ever recycled spaceship arrived Monday at the International Space Station, two days after the unmanned Dragon cargo capsule launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. https://phys.org/news/2017-06-spacex-recycled-dragon-space-station.html Space Exploration Mon, 05 Jun 2017 10:48:09 EDT news415878485 Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, carrying more than 7,000 pounds (3,000 kilograms) of water, food and supplies for global astronauts. https://phys.org/news/2015-12-orbital-cargo-ship-space-station.html Space Exploration Wed, 09 Dec 2015 06:43:40 EST news368865814 Britain's Royal Mail has turned to NASA for help after a five-year-old boy wrote in asking how much it would cost to post a letter to Mars. https://phys.org/news/2015-12-letter-mars-royal-mail-british.html Space Exploration Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:10:04 EST news368446197 Doesn't this make you want to book a trip on the next spaceship? Stunning footage from space here shows what auroras look like from the International Space Station. So many ripples of green. Such awesomeness. https://phys.org/news/2014-11-auroras-space-green-ocean-video.html Space Exploration Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:50:01 EST news334917178 Space tourism venture Virgin Galactic on Tuesday said it was pressing ahead with plans to build a second model of the SpaceShipTwo which crashed in the Mojave Desert last week. https://phys.org/news/2014-11-branson-spaceship.html Space Exploration Tue, 04 Nov 2014 07:30:13 EST news334308606 A spaceship designer who worked on Yury Gagarin's Vostok spaceship and was the last to shake his hand before liftoff, Oleg Ivanovsky, died on Thursday at 92, the Russian space agency said. https://phys.org/news/2014-09-spaceship-gagarin-orbit-dies.html Space Exploration Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:32:11 EDT news330269524 Russia successfully launched an unmanned cargo ship to the International Space Station on Wednesday evening after a spaceship carrying three astronauts experienced a technical glitch last month. https://phys.org/news/2014-04-russia-cargo-ship-iss.html Space Exploration Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:32:40 EDT news316268980 A new commercial spaceship will wait all week before aiming again for the International Space Station. https://phys.org/news/2013-09-longer-space-station-delivery-mission.html Space Exploration Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:28:30 EDT news299154494 Virgin Galactic says it successfully conducted a second rocket-powered, supersonic test flight of the passenger spaceship it is developing. https://phys.org/news/2013-09-spaceshiptwo-supersonic-flight.html Space Exploration Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:21:35 EDT news297685286 California is racing other states to woo new private companies planning to take people on trips to space. https://phys.org/news/2013-08-california-vies-space-industry.html Space Exploration Sun, 25 Aug 2013 07:30:01 EDT news296634049 A Colorado company developing a spaceship to take astronauts to the International Space Station has run the craft through a series of tests at a NASA facility in California. https://phys.org/news/2013-08-colo-company-spacecraft-calif.html Space Exploration Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:11:12 EDT news296449852 Russia celebrated Sunday the 50th anniversary of the maiden flight of the first woman in space—a Soviet national hero who went by the call name "Seagull" and captured the imaginations of girls around the world. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-russia-fetes-50th-anniversary-woman.html Space Exploration Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:10:01 EDT news290616892 On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space in a scientific feat that was a major propaganda coup for the Soviet Union. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-fifty-years-tereshkova-woman-space.html Space Exploration Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:06:38 EDT news290408786 Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has made its first powered flight, breaking the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert that moves the company closer to its goal of flying paying passengers on brief hops into space. https://phys.org/news/2013-04-virgin-galactic-spaceship-powered-flight.html Space Exploration Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:43:26 EDT news286454599 NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top U.S. senator disclosed Friday. https://phys.org/news/2013-04-senator-nasa-lasso-asteroid-closer.html Space Exploration Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:55:51 EDT news284399736