The eventual decision to send Williams and Wilmore home on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission, which NASA announced over the weekend, was informed by lessons from the agency's two space shuttle disasters.

when they set off for what was supposed to be an eight-day trip to the International Space Station — but due to mechanical issues with their Boeing Starliner shuttle, NASA announced that the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is launching to the International Space Station for his fourth trip to space, and he and two ...

Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” ...

Crew-9's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off at 2:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral ...

NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines a contract of up to $4.82 billion for communication and navigation services for missions ...

The two Starliner astronauts said Friday they had no regrets about NASA's decision to extend their mission and to bring their ...

NASA turned to private businesses a decade ago, wanting two competing U.S. companies ferrying astronauts in the post-shuttle era. Williams and Wilmore were Boeing's first crew, arriving at the ...

An early mockup of NASA's now-retired winged orbiters, Pathfinder was returned to its position atop a space shuttle propulsion "stack" at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama on ...

A NASA mission launching in October will send cameras and other scientific equipment to see, among other things, whether ...

NASA on Friday said it would be sending two ... The U.S. had previously relied on Russia to ferry astronauts to the ISS after the shuttle program was retired in 2011, a decision that came after ...

That tragedy, followed by the breakup of the shuttle Columbia and a similar loss of all hands on Feb. 1, 2003, left NASA much more risk-averse than it had been before. Read More: The Polaris Dawn ...