What actually happens to a spacecraft during its fiery last moments? That's the key question for the European Space Agency's ...

Picture a spacecraft returning to Earth after a long journey. The vehicle slams into the planet's atmosphere at roughly ...

The extreme conditions spacecraft have to survive to safely reenter Earth's atmosphere have been difficult to reproduce in ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program ended on Jan. 19 when an uncrewed Shenzhou 20 capsule damaged by a space-junk strike came safely down to Earth.

LOS ANGELES, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Four astronauts returned safely to Earth early on Thursday after an undisclosed serious medical condition affecting one of them forced an end to their International ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

The creator of the Orion capsule, the only spacecraft now capable of reaching lunar orbit, is set to open Moon treks to spacefarers worldwide. Shown here are U.S. Navy divers helping recover the Orion ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is now orbiting Earth at a record altitude of 262 miles (422 km). It was deliberately nudged to a higher position just recently by a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who famously stayed in space for an extended nine-month visit after problems with an ...