Thanks to nine Apollo missions that ferried 27 astronauts to the Moon and back, NASA knows a lot about what to expect from Orion, and particularly its heat shield.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket placed a South Korean communications satellite in geosynchronous transfer orbit following a successful Oct. 30 liftoff.

The Apollo 11 command module, Columbia, has left its Smithsonian home for a new mission—a traveling exhibit commemorating the upcoming 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s touchdown on the Moon.

Virgin Galactic aims to fly SpaceShipTwo beyond the atmosphere for the first time before year’s end, kicking off what is expected to be a final round of test flights before beginning commercial suborbital space tourism and research flights.

Lockheed Martin has thrown its support behind the Trump administration’s ambitious goal of putting U.S. boots back on the Moon.

An emerging international space exploration road map is trying to avoid the ongoing Moon vs. Mars exploration debate by showing how NASA systems such as the proposed Deep Space Gateway, Space Launch System and Orion capsule can serve both destinations.

Russia does not plan to launch its new science lab to the International Space Station (ISS) until late 2018.

Stratolaunch Systems, the space launch carrier aircraft venture backed by billionaire Paul Allen, has completed the first phase of engine tests.