Parker Solar Probe will break its silence on Friday—that is, if it survived its closest approach to the Sun.

The imaging satellite was decommissioned two years ago and abandoned to burn up upon reentry through Earth's atmosphere.

Layers of ice and dust create a winter wonderland on Mars in stunning new images.

The Orion crew capsule is designed to jettison away from the SLS rocket in a launch abort scenario.

At 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface, Parker Solar Probe will be the closest a human-made object's ever been to our host star.

The space agency is looking to maintain human presence in the microgravity environment as it transitions to commercial stations.

The otherworldly helicopter, with its 36 blades, is the size of an SUV—a major upgrade from Ingenuity's four blades.

SpaceX is gearing up to send a duo of landers to the Moon this January.

As a result of the failure, Japan's private sector has yet to independently place a satellite in Earth orbit.

The incident raises concerns about companies failing to disclose issues during commercial spaceflight missions.

The crew launched to the ISS in June for a week-long mission but will end up spending an unplanned nine months in space.

The Dwingeloo telescope, designed to observe signals at low frequencies, detected the farthest human spacecraft when it went dark earlier this year.

This year, private space companies were put to the test. Some thrived under pressure, while others crashed and burned.

A survey of Sun-like stars found that they produce a superflare roughly once per century.

Starship's upper stage survived reentry and splashed down in the Indian Ocean following the rocket's sixth test flight.

The recent geomagnetic storms have resulted in a mass migration of satellites in low Earth orbit.

They look like asteroids, but act like comets.

Scientists have identified surprising weather patterns underlying Mars' notorious dust storms.

Don Pettit packed a home-made tracker to space, allowing him to bless our timelines with long-exposure images.

The record-breaking milestone takes SpinLaunch one step closer to its goal of flinging satellites into space with a gigantic catapult.