When Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in his spacecraft, Vostok 1, he was one of the most famous people on earth.

Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 ... the one designed for the Falcon 1 rocket's fourth flight. The patch isn't beautiful ...

Similarly, a stamp featuring Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin allowed the children to explore space exploration history. They learned about Gagarin’s historic journey as the first human to orbit the Earth ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Founded by crypto guru Jed McCaleb, Vast Space will run two missions to the International Space Station and aims to launch ...

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander is heading to the moon for the first time to explore the lunar landscape.

"Alpha Centauri is 4.3 light-years away; about 2,000 times further away from the sun than the Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached — the furthest spacecraft we've ever sent into deep space so far.