The ACES atomic clock investigation will be mounted outside the space station's Columbus module. Credit: ESA/D. Ducros CAPE CANAVERAL—A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship lifted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket ...

In a major milestone for space cargo missions, SpaceX launchedNorthrop Grumman’s first-ever Cygnus XL spacecraft on September 14, 2025. The launch, which took place from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Taken together, the rapid reconfiguration of a commercial cargo ship into both a missile platform and a potential drone ...

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship shortly after docking at the ISS in August 2025. NASA A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully fired up a couple of newly ...

A cargo ship from Japan pulled alongside the International Space Station on Wednesday, maneuvering close enough for the lab’s robotic arm to reach out and grab it as the vehicles soared 260 miles over ...

This story was updated at 11:04 a.m. EDT. The world's first commercial space cargo ship, the unmanned Dragon capsule, has begun its return trip from the International Space Station back to Earth today ...

China completed its Tiangong space station in 2022 and aims to keep it permanently occupied with crew for at least a decade. With plans to expand the orbital outpost beyond its current three-module, T ...

A new kind of delivery system is being set up in low Earth orbit. Inversion Space, a relatively small space startup founded in 2021, is prepping its space-based delivery vehicle for flight. The ...

"The International Space Station Program will continue working with Northrop Grumman to assess whether the Cygnus cargo module is able to safely fly to the space station on a future flight." When you ...