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China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the daytime. Researchers at Yunnan Observatories under the Chinese Academy of Sciences

A Belgian sculptor credited with the “Fallen Astronaut” figurine left on the surface of the moon in 1971 has now fallen himself. Artist Paul Van Hoeydonck died on Saturday (May

Scientists have finally gathered direct proof of how the universe forges its heaviest elements, a process that has remained a mystery for over half a century. A team from the

There’s no rest for the space-enthused Starlink launch follower, as SpaceX continues lofting more of the internet satellites into orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX‘s Starlink 6-93 mission Tuesday

SpaceX just got permission to ramp up launches of its Starship megarocket from South Texas. On Tuesday (May 6), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released its final environmental assessment

Stratolaunch Systems has gone hypersonic — twice. Stratolaunch took its uncrewed Talon-A2 prototype to hypersonic speeds for the first time this past December, then repeated the feat in March, the

Just over a month since the return of the first astronauts to orbit Earth’s poles, SpaceX has released a four-hour video highlighting what that looked like from space. SpaceX launched

A new flight plan has been filed for a NASA winged orbiter and its jumbo jet transport, four decades after the iconic combination departed on its one and only international

The asteroid Vesta could be a huge chunk of planet that was blasted off its parent world and sent spinning into space in the aftermath of a titanic collision four-and-a-half

NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 crew member Nichole Ayers took this photo of the forward portion of the International Space Station during a spacewalk on May 1, 2025. (Image credit: