Space Travel

It experienced communication issues connecting with the Deep Space Network, a group of giant radio antennas positioned around the globe to communicate with spacecraft.

A UCF team is is sending a mission to an uncharted area of the moon, while researchers at Florida worked with NASA to successfully grow plants in lunar soil.

It's estimated that more than 60 launches will take place by the end of the year.

Sharon Hagle hopes to share her experience in space with future explorers — and highlight all the different career paths that lead to space.

Recent findings like this image show a river used to pass through a region of Mars.

The astronauts were at the International Space Station and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola.

Scientists who want to understand what's beyond our solar system have designed an interstellar spacecraft that could go out farther and faster than the famous Voyager probes.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the uptick in activity, including launches from private sector companies, will usher in a "whole new era of space activity."

A crew of four civilians will hitch a ride from SpaceX, spending three days in orbit inside their spaceship.

All of the technologies that are being deployed on this mission can be used for future missions in space.

The Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage is responsible for giving an in-space boost to the astronauts and sending them on a precise trajectory to the moon.

The Amazon founder became the second billionaire this month to reach the edge of space — following Richard Branson, who rocketed there aboard a vessel made by his company Virgin Galactic.