Four NASA astronauts splashed down off the coast of San Diego early Thursday after their mission was cut short due to medical issues, with their spacecraft seen streaking across the sky from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

NASA is on the brink of rolling out its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission, the first crewed trip past the moon in over 50 years. The agency has confirmed the rollout could begin as early as next Saturday,

Nasa is considering an early return of some crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) because of a medical issue involving one member of a four-strong team. The unnamed crew member is described as stable, but the incident has already led to the last-minute cancellation of a spacewalk.

Florida's Space Coast just hosted a record-shattering 109 orbital rocket launches during 2025, soaring beyond all previous annual records. Will this year's final total surpass that lofty sum from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space ...

With Crew-11 set to depart shortly, command of the ISS will fall to Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. He'll remain on the station with fellow Soyuz travellers, NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Mikaev. They will be the only crew aboard the station until SpaceX Crew-12 launches in February.

🚨Mission Update: Rollout for Artemis II is less than two weeks away.This milestone begins final, system-wide testing as NASA prepares to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, with a launch window opening as soon as February 6. pic.twitter.com/gKRqUXIfMg January 2, 2026

In multiple television appearances this week, Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy confirmed that he would be re-opening the contract to build a crewed Moon lander for the Artemis missions. That's a blow for SpaceX, which ...