Space Exploration

Astronomers have detected possible chemical signs of life on a faraway planet. But they caution much more work is needed to confirm their findings.

Blue Origin’s flight features the first all-female crew since 1963 and includes big names like pop star Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez.

Katy Perry and Gayle King were among the six crew members on Monday’s Blue Origin launch.

Katy Perry is set to shoot across the sky with Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez and more stars in Blue Origin’s historic all-women rocket launch. 

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates launched successfully to the International Space Station on Tuesday on board a Russian spacecraft.

Before sharing advice for the future generation of space explorers, astronaut Suni Williams took a moment to shout out her hometown of Needham, Massachusetts.

Astronaut Sunita Williams is scheduled to speak publicly on Monday for the very first time since splashing back down to Earth earlier this month.

The Needham local will surely have plenty to talk about after spending months in space.

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Blue Origin has set a launch date for sending Gayle King, Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and three other women into space.

A private lunar lander from Texas-based Firefly has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.

A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts.

After being postponed, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 had a successful launch Friday night. The ship will return with Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore.

Needham native Sunita Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore have spent nine months in space after originally being scheduled for an eight-day mission. The flight that will finally take them home launched Friday....

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Four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday evening on their way to the International Space Station.

Needham native Sunita Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore have spent nine months in space after originally being scheduled for an eight-day mission

A launch pad problem prompted SpaceX to delay a flight to the International Space Station on Wednesday to replace NASA’s two stuck astronauts.

A new astronaut crew’s arrival at the International Space Station will kick off the process of bringing Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore back to Earth.

After several delays, the mission launched from California on Tuesday.

A SpaceX Starship megarocket exploded during a test flight Thursday near Brownsville, Texas.

SpaceX launched a mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down.