Putin has lauded Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions and hinted at joint missions with the Russian space and nuclear agencies Read ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared Elon Musk to Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev, the man behind the USSR’s ...

"When it goes online in 2029, the new Canberra dish will be the last of six parabolic dishes constructed under NASA's Deep ...

and the fear was that the Deep Space Network would not be able to find the weak signal. But find it they did, and on October 22 they sent a command to confirm S-band communications. At this point ...

HOUSTON—Russia’s Soyuz MS-27 launched to and docked with the International Space Station (ISS) early April 8, transporting ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

Now, preparations have begun on its fifth as NASA works to increase the network's capacity. NASA's Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia celebrated its 60th anniversary on March 19 ...

On March 19, one of NASA's Deep Space Network facilities — located in Canberra, Australia — entered its 60th year of relaying priceless information between scientists on Earth and the ...