Four ISS crewmembers were brought home a month early due to an undisclosed but non-emergency "medical concern".

BEIJING -- The test module of a Chinese commercial crewed spacecraft CYZ1 successfully completed the integrated verification trial of its landing-buffering system, the spacecraft developer InterstellOr said on Sunday. All performance indices met their design targets, with key metrics exceeding expectations.

China’s first launches of 2026 send Yaogan spacecraft into unusual orbit, loft Guowang satellites  China conducted a pair of Long March rocket launches Tuesday, kicking off what is likely to be a record-breaking year for the country.

Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop for three months as it unleashed powerful space weather. By combining views from two spacecraft—one near Earth and one orbiting the Sun—researchers followed a massive active region as it grew,

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN Mars orbiter.

As lunar missions increase, scientists warn that spacecraft exhaust may contaminate sensitive regions of the moon faster than expected.

On5, 2006, NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth to drop off a capsule that contained the first samples of a comet and interstellar dust. Two weeks earlier, Stardust visited the comet Wild 2 and collected some dust from its coma.

A study has cast doubt on the idea that Jupiter's moon Europa, where NASA has sent a spacecraft, could have conditions to support contemporary life.

Over half of the exhaust methane from lunar spacecraft could end up contaminating areas of the moon that might otherwise yield clues about the origins of Earthly life, according to a recent study. The pollution could unfold rapidly regardless of a spacecraft's touchdown site;

Japan’s Akatsuki mission officially ended in September 2025 after more than a decade of operations and a final year of complete radio silence. Launched in 2010 by JAXA and operated by ISAS, the spacecraft was designed to study Venus’s atmosphere,