Just over a week after its latest Atlas V launch, United Launch Alliance (ULA) rolled its next Vulcan rocket to the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday morning, marking the start of preparations for the third Vulcan launch since the rocket's debut. This booster is the first to fly since Vulcan achieved full certification to carry national security payloads, a key milestone for ULA’s launch cadence and mission portfolio.

A Russian cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) after a successful launch this afternoon, carrying nearly three tons of essential supplies for the orbiting outpost.

China’s Tianwen 2 spacecraft has now traveled more than 12 million kilometers from Earth on its ambitious asteroid sample-return mission, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced Tuesday. Over a month into its journey, the probe remains in excellent condition as it continues along its planned trajectory toward the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3.

A state-of-the-art European satellite designed to enhance weather forecasting and air quality monitoring across Europe and North Africa was successfully launched into space Tuesday evening aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Blue Origin marked a major milestone today, successfully launching its 70th passenger to space aboard its New Shepard suborbital rocket. The brief yet spectacular mission, NS-33, took off at 9:39 a.m. CDT (10:39 a.m. EDT / 1439 GMT) from the company's Launch Site One in the West Texas desert.

Chinese scientists are proposing a bold and innovative mission to closely observe asteroid 99942 Apophis as it makes a historic near-Earth pass in 2029. The mission, dubbed the Apophis Recon Swarm (ARS), would dispatch a fleet of miniature spacecraft—cubesats—on multiple flybys to study the asteroid’s physical and internal characteristics, while also advancing global planetary defense capabilities.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued a stern warning to billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX, threatening legal action over what she described as environmental contamination and falling debris from rocket launches conducted near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Rocket Lab successfully launched a classified satellite into orbit early Friday, completing its second Electron mission in less than 48 hours and marking a record pace for its New Zealand launch site.

A highly anticipated test firing of a next-generation solid rocket booster intended for NASA’s Artemis moon missions ended with an unexpected anomaly on Wednesday, raising new questions about the future of the Space Launch System (SLS) amid shifting budget priorities.

Veteran NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, the United States’ most experienced space traveler, has returned to orbit early Wednesday morning at the helm of a groundbreaking private mission. Accompanied by three first-time space travelers from India, Poland, and Hungary, Whitson launched aboard Crew Dragon Grace — a brand-new SpaceX capsule — on Axiom Space’s fourth non-government mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

China successfully launched its newest communications satellite, ChinaSat-9C, on Friday, marking a significant step in upgrading its geostationary satellite fleet and strengthening national broadcasting capabilities.

In a twist that challenges decades of assumptions, researchers have discovered that dust from the Moon may be less harmful to human lungs than the air pollution commonly inhaled in modern cities.