U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds, that could cut journey times across the solar system in half.

on Tuesday after nine months at the International Space Station. Wilmore, Williams, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov were greeted by a pod of dolphins that ...

Companies that hope to profit from conspicuous celestial commercials are exploiting the ambiguity in current space law regarding what constitutes light pollution from outer space, says astronomer ...

Freedom carried four people — NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Aleksandr Gorbunov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos — home from the International Space ...

Space law dates from the 20th century, when the 1967 Outer Space Treaty was adopted. But the original space race involved superpowers, and the possibility of corporations one day crossing the ...

Also on board the SpaceX Dragon capsule that departed around 1 a.m. Tuesday from the orbital laboratory are the two spacefarers who originally rode the spacecraft to outer space back in September.

Now they’ll undergo a battery of tests to find out how the longer-than-expected space stay has impacted their health. The pair left on June 5 for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission to ...

Remember those two NASA astronauts who got stuck on the International Space Station for nine months? They finally returned to Earth on Tuesday afternoon aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, together with Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov, departed the International Space Station at 1:05 a.m. EDT on Tuesday (March 18). Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ...

NASA When astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched to the International Space Station (ISS) for a test flight last June, they were expecting to be back on Earth less than ten days later.

Their return caps a protracted space mission that was fraught with uncertainty and technical troubles, turning a rare instance of NASA's contingency planning - and the latest failures of Starliner ...

SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission successfully docked at the International Space Station on Sunday morning, setting the stage to finally retrieve the two NASA astronauts who have been stuck in orbit for ...