The Space Coast set a new launch record in 2023 with 72 orbital missions from either Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Early forecasts for as many as 111 launches in 2024 ...

Here’s a look at the most exciting space missions planned for the coming year – from the Moon and Mars to asteroids and beyond: ...

A Belfast-based astronomer has said a planetary defence mission with which he is involved will help scientists gather new ...

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.

BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in January 2025. This maneuver will help the spacecraft enter orbit around ...

From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor ...

Asteroids and comets reveal complex organic molecules which form in space and might have contributed to Earth’s early biology ...

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

on lunar soil composition and water-splitting processes will be conducted to assess the potential for generating oxygen and hydrogen. Advanced navigation systems and autonomous operation technologies ...

Scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from. But two populations of so-called dark comets may tell ...

NASA is celebrating the photographic work of astronaut Matthew Dominick, who enjoyed a six-month stay aboard the space station in 2024.