NASA has finally launched its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, after several delays caused by technical hitches.

The 10 candidates, who range from 32 to 45 years, will now report for duty in January at the Johnson Space Center in Texas, where they will undergo two years of training.

Blue Origin, SpaceX and Dynetics were among the top bidders for the system, which is seen as a key part of NASA’s plan to send back American astronauts to the moon by 2024.

A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit.

NASA confirms its Perseverance rover has succeeded in collecting its first rock sample on Mars.

NASA on Thursday postponed a planned launch of a Boeing (BA.N) CST-100 Starliner capsule to the International Space Station after the orbiting outpost was briefly thrown out of control by jet thrusters inadvertently activated on a newly docked Russian module.

NASA says it will launch two missions to Venus to probe the divergent fate of Earth's hothouse sister planet.

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts back to Earth has splashed down off Florida in NASA's first nighttime ocean landing in more than 50 years.

NASA says its Perseverance rover has extracted the first sample of oxygen from Mars.

NASA's ingenuity helicopter has taken its second flight on Mars.