Stories by Mike Wall

Europe rejoins the new space race with the launch of its long-awaited Ariane 6 rocket

Elon Musk’s SpaceX made a much-anticipated fourth test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket, Starship, a vehicle designed to power human flight to the moon and Mars

The Chang’e 6 mission is China’s second to touch down on the lunar far side and will retrieve samples for analysis on Earth

The 90-year-old finally realized his dreams of spaceflight aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle, which also carried five other crew members on a short suborbital voyage

Starliner’s first crewed launch will mark just the sixth time ever that NASA astronauts have flown in a brand-new spacecraft

Odysseus, a lunar lander built by the aerospace company Intuitive Machines, launched atop a SpaceX rocket on a mission to the moon's south pole

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is eliminating nearly 600 workers due to funding shortfalls for the space agency's Mars Sample Return mission

The flare may have been accompanied by a plasma eruption now headed toward Earth

SpaceX’s Starship—the most powerful rocket ever built—experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” in its otherwise successful second full-scale launch, triggering a federal investigation into what went wrong

OSIRIS-REx’s treasure trove from asteroid Bennu includes material rich in water and carbon

A new view of a record-shattering distant star shows it to be twice as hot as our sun and likely accompanied by a stellar companion

The ambitious Jupiter moon mission JUICE has begun its long journey to the Jovian system

The “absolutely monstrous” cosmic blast is estimated to be a one-in-10,000-year event

The Orion spacecraft passed just 130 kilometers above the lunar surface during a mission-critical engine burn

NASA’s EMIT instrument has found more than 50 methane super emitters in its first few months of operation—and that’s not even its main job

Technical glitches and questionable weather forecasts continue to delay liftoff for NASA’s landmark lunar mission

The spacecraft will arrive in lunar orbit in mid-November to help prepare for a future moon-orbiting outpost

Ground stations are currently tracking 16 fragments associated with the event, which occurred on April 15

The aircraft’s sorties are helping NASA’s Perseverance rover scout a path into an ancient Martian river delta

Proxima d might be only a quarter the mass of Earth, potentially making it one of the smallest worlds yet discovered beyond our solar system

The space agency has announced the timing of the ISS’s demise as part of a long-planned transition to private orbital outposts

The rover’s latest sample collection—an effort to gather material for eventual return to Earth—is off to a rocky start

The space agency’s first-ever robotic moon rover will touch down in late 2023 just west of Nobile, a crater near the lunar south pole

The billionaire and three others take a suborbital trip onboard the craft New Shepard