After a relatively short period of just two and a half years, the chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Yuri ...

Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, who have been stranded on the International Space Station since June, ...

About 30 metres long and weighing as much as 23 tonnes, the booster — part of China’s efforts to build its Tiangong space station — had orbited Earth for four days. Eventually, the drag of ...

A search for a missing plane carrying ten people has ended with the discovery of wreckage in Alaska and recovery of all the victims' bodies. Alaska Department of Public Safety, in a news release 2 ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a science laboratory located in the Earth's orbit, which flies some 240 miles above Earth's surface at 17,500 miles an hour. The ISS is the work of five space ...

A photo of a Bering Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan in Nome, Alaska, the same type of plane that disappeared. (Quintin Soloviev via WikiCommons) ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Yuri Borisov after 2.5 years in charge of the nation's space agency Roscosmos, ...

Editor's note: This page reflects Friday's news about the plane crash in Alaska. For the latest updates, please read USA TODAY's coverage of the plane crash investigation for Saturday ...

The service member and defense contractors were the only people aboard the plane. The plane crashed into a rice field near Ampatuan, a small municipality in the southern Maguindanao del Sur province.

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, shows a small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on a flight that was bound for the hub community of Nome.

A US-contracted surveillance plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday morning, killing all four personnel on board, including one US military service member, according to US Indo-Pacific Command.