MILAN — The French-German aerospace company The Exploration Company completed mock splashdown tests for its Nyx space capsule, a modular, reusable spacecraft designed to transport cargo and eventually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Shenzhou-22 space capsule docks at China's Tiangong space station on Tuesday, just 20 days after Chinese space officials ...

Three astronauts are stranded in orbit after their return capsule was believed to have been struck by an unknown object. The crew, already in space for six months, were supposed to return on ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

Three Chinese astronauts are temporarily stranded in space after their return capsule was struck by suspected orbital debris, China’s human spaceflight agency said on Wednesday. Wang Jie, Chen ...

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Every time a satellite streaks across the night sky in a final blaze, it is performing one of the least understood phases of spaceflight. The breakup of a spacecraft in the upper atmosphere is ...