A pair of dangerously close space encounters are adding to tensions between the U.S. and China, while underscoring the potential peril to astronauts as satellite constellations and debris proliferate in orbit. Two SpaceX satellites had…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials on Tuesday rejected accusations that they endangered astronauts aboard the International Space Station by conducting a weapons test that created more than 1,500 pieces of space junk.  U.S. officials on…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts returned to Earth on Monday, riding home with SpaceX to end a 200-day space station mission that began last spring. Their capsule streaked through the late night sky…

MOSCOW — A film team has reached the International Space Station (ISS), for the world’s first effort to make a feature film in outer space. Russian actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko took off…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. The Dragon capsule parachuted into…

Fellow sky watchers.  There is going to be a spectacular pass of the International Space Station tonight.  Look for the ISS to appear in the northwest skies at 9:12 this evening.  The space station will…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Who wants to be an astronaut? More than 12,000 people do, resulting in NASA’s second-largest group of astronaut hopefuls. NASA said Wednesday that Americans from all 50 states, the District…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s new Starliner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit after lifting off on its first test flight Friday, a blow to the company’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA…

SAN DIEGO — UC San Diego graduate Jessica Meir and fellow astronaut Christina Koch made history before most people woke up Friday, becoming the first all-female team of astronauts to perform a spacewalk. Meir and…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts replaced oversized batteries outside the International Space Station on Friday, as news broke of the death of the world’s first spacewalker. NASA interrupted live TV coverage of its second…