A spaceship that will block out the Sun is being launched Dec. 4. European Space Agency’s eclipse-making precise formation-flying mission Proba-3 is scheduled for launch on a PSLV-XL rocket from ...

On 2:03 a.m. Thursday morning, the new space race began in earnest. This time it’s not USA vs the Soviets, but a home-grown billionaire vs billionaire face-off. Jeff Bezos, the second richest ...

India launched its first space docking mission on Monday, on an Indian-made rocket, in an attempt to become the fourth country to achieve the advanced technological feat.

That's where they launched both the Saturn V rockets that took astronauts to the Moon in the late 1960's and early 1970's, and the 30 year Space Shuttle program that began shortly thereafter. But ...

A Cape Cod man spent his childhood dreaming of being an astronaut and learning everything he could about space. Now, as his final wish, David Lavender Jr.‘s ashes are being launched into space ...