The test verifies a possible technique for nudging a threatening asteroid or comet off course before it could impact Earth.
Tom Cruise's next mission is looking all the more possible — a studio executive says he's going to be "taking the world to space" in his upcoming film.
Finding the remains of ancient stars "was like trying to find the mythical elephant's graveyard," scientists say.
Actor William Shatner says his 2021 trip to space aboard a Blue Origin capsule filled him with "overwhelming sadness." In an excerpt from his new book, he writes, "Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands." CBS News' Lilia Luciano and Meg Oliver have more.
SpaceX's 46th launch so far this year put two Intelsat Galaxy communications satellites in orbit.
The Crew Dragon brought four fresh crew members to the lab complex, including a Russian cosmonaut.
She said she was bringing a dream catcher her mother gave her to the space station.
A NASA and SpaceX flight to the ISS includes the first Indigenous woman to go to space and a Russian cosmonaut.
NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station. CBS News senior national correspondent Mark Strassmann, CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood and Thomas Marshburn, pilot of NASA's Crew-3 mission, discussed the historic launch.
The new SES satellites are part of a push by the FCC to free up the airwaves for 5G mobile networks.
The Crew 5 flight to the ISS features the first Russian to launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
A Crew Dragon flight to boost Hubble's altitude could extend its useful life by a decade or more.
The return of the Soyuz crew sets the stage for a SpaceX Crew Dragon launch next week.
NASA successfully crashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in hopes of altering the space rock's trajectory. Scientists hope to be able to use a similar strategy to protect Earth from future incoming asteroids. CBS News' John Dickerson speaks with Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, about the historic implications of this unprecedented test.
