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SpaceX has cancelled the planned launch of a Falcon 9 carrier rocket with 60 Starlink satellites.

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Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Sunday to install support frames for new, high-efficiency solar panels arriving at the International Space Station later this year.

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A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday carrying Russia's first satellite for monitoring the Arctic's climate, the Roscosmos space agency said.

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ISRO will launch the PSLV-C51 rocket, the 53rd mission of PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle), with Amazonia-1 of Brazil as primary satellite and 18 co-passenger payloads from Sriharikota on Sunday, February 28 at 10:24am.

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ISRO is getting ready to launch a new-generation compact rocket on its maiden orbital test flight, the space agency said.

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The huge parachute used by NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team.

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NASA released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the red dust kicking up as rocket engines lowered the rover to the surface.

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NASA has released a stunning picture of its Mars Rover Perseverance being lowered into the dusty red surface moments before a successful landing. NASA has promised more photos in the next few days and possibly also an audio recording of the descent.

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Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron, population 350, is none too thrilled to have been picked as a ground station for Musk's Starlink project for broadband from space.

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A fresh examination has revealed new details about the first black hole ever detected – that was spotted in 1964 and became the subject of a friendly wager between renowned scientists – including that it is bigger than previously known.

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NASA's Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely inside a vast crater, the first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet.

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For All Mankind season 2 review: the Apple TV+ series jumps to 1983 with Cold War-era tensions at their peak, as the Americans and Soviets clash on the Moon. Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Wrenn Schmidt, Sarah Jones, and Shantel VanSanten lead For All Mankind cast.

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NASA’s Perseverance rover is headed for a compact patch on the edge of an ancient river delta on Mars. The once-submerged terrain also could hold evidence of past life, all the more reason to gather samples at this spot for return to Earth 10 years from now.

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A miniature rover being developed to explore the Moon's surface is on track to join the search for water there, its Hungarian inventors believe – using a device that weighs less than a bag of sugar.

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An unmanned Russian cargo ship launched successfully Monday with a load of supplies for the International Space Station.

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Transported aboard the Mars 2020 spacecraft that arrives at the Red Planet on Thursday, the small Ingenuity helicopter will have several challenges to overcome – the biggest being the rarefied Martian atmosphere that is just one percent the density of Earth's.

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After a seven-month journey, NASA's Perseverance rover prepares to touch down on Mars on Thursday after first negotiating a risky landing procedure that will mark the start of its multi-year search for signs of ancient microbial life.

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When NASA's Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, it is set to emit a radio alert as it streaks into the thin Martian atmosphere.

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The UAE's Hope probe sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said Sunday, days after the spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit.

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and location and navigation technology solutions provider MapmyIndia announced an initiative to partner together to offer India's best and fully indigenous mapping portal and geospatial services.

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China's space agency CNSA released video footage from its Tianwen-1 spacecraft circling Mars, two days after it successfully entered the planet's orbit in Beijing's latest ambitious space mission.

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In a move that will give chills to fans of the dystopian movie The Matrix, scientists have developed a wearable device that could use the human body to replace batteries.

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An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Mars after over six months of journey from Earth, China's space agency said, in the country's first independent mission to the planet.

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Turkey has announced a 10-year space programme that includes an ambitious 2023 moon mission, sending Turkish astronauts into space, and developing internationally viable satellite system.

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UAE’s Hope Probe is set to reach Mars and enter its orbit following a seven-month journey. This would make the UAE the fifth space agency to reach the planet. The Emirates Mars Mission, which has cost around $200 million, launched the Hope Probe from a Japanese space centre.

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SpaceX Starship rocket prototype exploded during a landing attempt minutes after a high-altitude experimental launch from Boca Chica, Texas, US, in a repeat of an accident that destroyed a previous test rocket.

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Space tourism company Virgin Galactic said it planned a new test flight for its SpaceShipTwo craft this month after an aborted test in early December.

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A Maine company that's developing a rocket to propel small satellites into space passed its first major test on Sunday.

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SpaceX announced it's aiming to launch this year the first all-civilian mission into Earth's orbit, led by a tech billionaire who plans to raffle off one of the spots aboard the craft.

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