Explainer – How Boeing’s Starliner can bring its astronauts back to Earth
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Problems with Boeing’s Starliner capsule, still docked at the International Space Station (ISS), have upended the original plans for its return of its two…
Virgin Galactic spaceplane takes tourists on flight
By Mrinmay Dey (Reuters) – Virgin Galactic flew four tourists to the edge of space and back aboard its spaceplane, marking the second flight this year, the Richard Branson-founded company…
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took ‘Earthrise’ photo, dead in plane crash
By Peter Cooney and Steve Gorman (Reuters) – Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed “Earthrise” photo during…
Who are the first astronauts to fly aboard Boeing’s Starliner?
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – Two veteran NASA astronauts with 500 days of previous spaceflight experience between them are the first crew of Boeing’s pxpCST-100 Starliner space capsule, launched to…
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft sends first astronaut crew to orbit
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Boeing’s new Starliner capsule flew its first crew of astronauts to orbit on Wednesday from Florida in a much-delayed test mission to…
Chile to install world’s largest astronomy camera on the edge of Atacama desert
By Reuters TV and Natalia Ramos SANTIAGO (Reuters) – With a resolution above 3.2 gigapixels, a nearly three-ton weight and the ambitious task of carrying out an unprecedented decade-long exploration,…
New Zealand’s nascent space industry aims for the stars
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – The grassy plains on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island, once home to cattle, have been transformed into a key aerospace facility…
Earliest-known galaxy, spotted by Webb telescope, is a beacon to cosmic dawn
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest-known galaxy, one that is surprisingly bright and big considering it formed during the universe’s infancy…
Boeing Starliner capsule’s first crewed test flight postponed minutes before launch
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A second attempt at launching Boeing’s new Starliner space capsule on its inaugural test flight with NASA astronauts on…
China lands on moon’s far side in historic sample-retrieval mission
By Liz Lee, Joey Roulette and Joe Brock BEIJING (Reuters) – China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday, a landmark mission aiming to…