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Russian resupply vessel blasts off from Kazakhstan
A Progress supply craft loaded with 3.1 tons of cargo lifted off Thursday from Kazakhstan, launching on a six-hour pursuit of the International Space Station culminating with a smooth docking to the research lab's aft port.
HTV supply ship sets course for re-entry
Heading for a destructive re-entry over the South Pacific with several tons of trash, Japan's fifth HTV cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Monday after overcoming a last-minute snag in the lab's robotics system.
Live coverage: Japanese cargo craft departs International Space Station
Live coverage of the departure of a Japanese cargo craft from the International Space Station. The fifth HTV cargo freighter delivered a 9,500-pound package of food, spare parts and experiments.
Secrets behind Pluto’s pastels far from being answered
Geologists said Thursday they are bewildered by images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft baring unseen landscapes on Pluto with unexpected "snakeskin" textures, colorful chasms routing through ancient landforms, and vivid new views of apparent glacial flows.
Planet Labs takes rash of launch failures in stride
No one had ever lost 26 satellites at once until a launch failure bit Planet Labs last year, temporarily setting back the San Francisco startup's ambition to map the globe every day.
Soyuz lands safely in Kazakhstan
Three space station crew members -- two short timers completing a 10-day flight and a veteran cosmonaut who has logged a world record 879 days aloft over five missions -- undocked from the International Space Station and returned to Earth Friday, landing safely on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out a problem-free flight.
Dawn gets better look at bright spots on Ceres
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, nearly halfway through its exploration of the dwarf planet Ceres, has returned its best images yet of a mysterious grouping of bright spots inside a crater on the Texas-sized world, bolstering evidence that Ceres is geologically alive.
VideoStation crew recommends “The Martian” in plug from space
Space station astronaut Kjell Lindgren said Tuesday he and commander Scott Kelly are big fans of Andy Weir's book "The Martian," adding they're hopeful NASA will beam up a copy of the Ridley Scott movie as soon as it's released.
One-on-one with NASA’s chief space station builder
Mike Suffredini is leaving NASA after 10 years at the helm of the International Space Station program overseeing assembly of the largest spacecraft ever built. He chatted with Spaceflight Now in his final weeks as space station program manager, sharing his memories and vision for the commercialization of low Earth orbit.
Kelly assumes command of space station
In a brief ceremony Saturday, veteran cosmonaut Gennadi Padalka, the most experienced spaceman on or off the planet, turned over command of the International Space Station to NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who along with cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko is midway through a nearly yearlong stay in orbit.