Spaceflight

Fuel leaks have forced NASA to scrub the launch of its new moon rocket on a no-crew test flight.

The next launch attempt will not take place until Friday at the earliest.

The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket was set to lift off Monday morning with three test dummies aboard on its first flight, a mission to propel a capsule into orbit around the moon.

Seeing a rocket blast off to the Moon is "a once-in-a-lifetime thing to experience," says Joanne Bostandji.

Elon Musk's SpaceX satellites will connect directly to T-Mobile cellphones to provide service access even in the most remote places beyond the reach of cell towers from next year, the two companies have announced.     

A spacewalk by two Russians on Aug. 17 was ended abruptly due to a problem with the battery in cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev's suit, though at no point was he in any danger, the US and Russian space agencies said.

The head of SpaceX and Tesla Elon Musk believes that all people on the planet should be chipped with a special chip in the head. He expressed this opinion in an article for the Chinese magazine China Cyberspace. In the text, he explained, among other things, why people should be chipped using his startup Neuralink.

Artemis is Nasa’s new Moon program, and the upcoming flight on 29 August is dubbed Artemis I

NASA and Roscosmos, the two-decade-old space station’s core partners, have sought for years to renew routine integrated crewed flights

Astronauts lose decades' worth of bone mass in space that many do not recover even after a year back on Earth, researchers said on June 30, warning that it could be a "big concern" for future missions to Mars.

The reusable rocket sled was recovered for the first time at hypersonic speed

Two small NASA satellites that were meant to study hurricane development failed to enter orbit on June 12 when their Astra rocket shut off before reaching the necessary altitude, the US space agency said.