Spacecraft

An out-of-control Soviet-era spacecraft will plummet back to Earth on Saturday, if the latest tracking predictions are correct. But there's still a lot experts don't know.

Scientists are keeping an eye on Kosmos 482, which is forecast to plunge back to Earth in the coming days. We just don't know exactly when or where it will land. 

NASA astronauts Colonel Anne McClain and Major Nichole Ayers leave the International Space Station for almost 6 hours to to move an antenna and prepare the station for new solar panels. 

Amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo discovered the latest comet to grace our sky. But he fears his tenth comet could be his last as a new state-of-the-art telescope is set to replace comet hunters like him.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who spent 220 days in the ISS and orbited the Earth 3,520 times, landed back on Earth in Kazakhstan on Saturday local time. 

Scientists say a vast region of unexpectedly high temperatures in Jupiter's upper atmosphere was caused by a massive wave of solar wind.

Aim for the stars, Jaxon Liebeck tells students as he returns to his school in WA a month after directing a landmark space mission.

Australian amateur radio enthusiasts are ready to be part of history after the first polar space mission — with an Australian astronaut on board — blasted off today.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams didn't shy away from accepting some of the blame for Boeing's bungled test flight.

German startup Isar Aerospace says this was an initial test as part of a project aimed at kickstarting satellite launches from Europe.

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

After 268 days without fresh air or a proper shower, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams made their final journey back to Earth.

The NASA astronauts became stranded on the International Space Station after their Boeing Starliner capsule on which they launched into space malfunctioned.

NASA'S SpaceX Crew-9, including astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, are safely back on Earth after a long-awaited journey home. 

After nine months stranded in space, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have taken off in a SpaceX capsule bound for Earth. Follow live.

A SpaceX rescue mission destined for the International Space Station (ISS) has been successful and aims to return two astronauts who have been stranded in orbit since June 2024.

The Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched after the rescue mission was delayed due to a technical issue earlier this week. 

The mission for the return of two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station was scrubbed over a technical issue with the rocket's launch pad.

Dozens of people have reported what is believed to be burning space junk moving across southern Australian skies on Saturday night.

While the rocket's Super Heavy booster stage returned to land as planned, the Starship's upper stage began spinning before exploding.