The Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station 27 hours after launching into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Space Coast. A new generation of space flight starts now with the arrival of @SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to the @Space_Station. Congratulation

Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy following the successful STS-132 mission to the International Space Station.

The goal of 3-D printing is to take this capability to microgravity for use on the International Space Station. In space, whatever astronauts have available on orbit is what they have to use -- but just like on Earth, parts break or get lost. When that happens, there's a wait for replacement parts, ...

Asteroids are a scientific and economic opportunity in that they contain the original building blocks of the Solar System. They are targets for future human exploration, and may contain valuable raw materials for mining. These asteroids are also a threat in that they can pose great risk to humanity ...

Space Shuttle Atlantis is on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The orbiter made the 3-1/2 mile rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building May 15, 2011. It's final and iconic mission is scheduled for July 2011 with four crew members aboard.

A Soyruz rocket launched NASA's Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts into space for what will be a year-long mission aboard the International Space Station. It is NASA's first-of-its-kind study of identical twins to learn more about how long-term spaceflight affects the human body — by sending one

As 2015 comes to a close we look back at an exciting year of reaching new heights and revealing the unknown for the benefit of humankind.

2015 marks 50 years of successful NASA missions to Mars starting with Mariner 4 in 1965. Since then, a total of 15 robotic missions led by various NASA centers have laid the groundwork for future human missions to the Red Planet. The journey to Mars continues with additional robotic missions planned...

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity, the reusable rocket-powered space plane carrying the company’s first crew of tourists to space, has successfully launched and landed.

As part of our popular space exploration series we present this local rocket launch reaching very high altitudes and then returning back to the launch site with a baloon parachu landing.