Elon Musk's SpaceX is poised to send a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday evening (November 15) in NASA's first operational mission using the Crew Dragon capsule.

The discovery of water on the moon's sunlit surface by NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) came as a surprise, a NASA scientist says.

An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts touched down safely on the Kazakhstan steppe on Thursday, completing a 196-day mission that began with the first launch under lockdown conditions.

The mission is the last scheduled Russian flight carrying a US crew member.

Betelgeuse is classified as a red supergiant, the largest type of star.

The head of Russia's space agency said Friday that Roscosmos wants to return to Venus.

America's first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth.

The US first crewed spaceship since the Space Shuttle era is set to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft has undocked from the International Space Station and started its journey to return to Earth with two US astronauts aboard. Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken spent two months aboard the orbiting laboratory after becoming the first US astronauts to reach ISS on an American spacecraft in nearly a decade.

NASA's next-generation Mars rover blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral to search for traces of potential past life on Earth's planetary neighbor.