Donald Trump is facing calls to immediately seize control of SpaceX after Elon Musk threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space ...

NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability now, as more people start traveling off the planet ...

A Belgian sculptor credited with the "Fallen Astronaut" figurine left on the surface of the moon in 1971 has now fallen himself. Paul Van Hoeydonck died on May 3, at his home in Antwerp.

The astronauts are now on about a 17-hour voyage back to Earth, where they are expected to make a water landing at about 5:57 p.m. EDT off the Florida coast, according to NASA.

The space agency honored the fallen Challenger crew, as well as other astronauts of Apollo 1 and space shuttle Columbia, during its annual Day of Remembrance ceremony on Jan. 23. "Today, we honor the ...

The space agency honored the fallen Challenger crew, as well as other astronauts of Apollo 1 and space shuttle Columbia, during its annual Day of Remembrance ceremony on Jan. 23.