On her first visit to orbit, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers has just met three robots stationed aboard the International Space ...

The three-module Tiangong was completed in late 2022 and has been constantly occupied ever since, with three-person crews ...

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Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...

SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, is gearing up for one of its most daring missions yet: sending its Starship rocket to Mars as early ...

MIT engineers have developed wearable robotic limbs that have the potential to help astronauts get up quickly from falls on the lunar surface. During the long-duration Artemis missions ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

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Former astronaut and engineer Leland Melvin spoke with elementary school students about fueling those dreams through reading.

“Now, he is an astronaut like everybody else who wants to fly to the space station waiting for a mission assignment,” said Daniel Neuenschwander, director of human and robotic exploration at the ...

China's Shenzhou 19 astronauts experiment with the AI robot Xiao Hang aboard the Tiangong space station in March 2025. | Credit: CCTV Meanwhile in orbit, the Shenzhou 19 crew currently aboard ...