Peggy Whitson, an Iowa native and veteran astronaut, will command Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission, set to launch no earlier than ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has started 2025 as he means to go on, with yet another stunning photograph from the space station.

The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and ...

Iowa native and prolific astronaut -- first with NASA for three decades and recently as director of human space flight for ...

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. (SPCE) completed the final commercial flight of its Unity spacecraft in 2024 and is set to spend 2025 focused on its new Delta-class spaceships, which are on track for ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa-native Peggy Whitson is set to command another commercial spaceflight. Axiom Mission 4 will take Whitson and a crew of international partners to space to dock with the ...

New Orleans Attacker Appears to Have Acted Alone, Investigators Say A day after a man drove into a crowd and killed at least 14 people, security was tightening ahead of a rescheduled college ...

If someone died on a low-Earth-orbit mission, such as aboard the International Space Station, the crew could return the body to Earth in a capsule within a matter of hours. If it happened on the Moon, ...