2011 mothballing of US shuttle program left Russia's Soyuz spacecraft solely responsible for transporting crews, giving Moscow cash as well as leverage over ISS decisions

Elon Musk's company becomes first private organization to take humans to orbit, ending nine-year launch drought for NASA since retirement of the space shuttle

Celestial object located in double-star solar system visible to the naked eye; researcher calls nearby discovery 'tip of an exciting iceberg'

Cosmic blast in galaxy cluster some 390 million light years from earth opened a gas crater the size of 15 Milky Way galaxies

Discovery marks first time that these signals, known as Fast Radio Bursts, have been detected having a regular tempo and could help identify source

The commemorative stamps also feature Jeffrey Hoffman, first Jewish-American man to enter space in 1985

Thanks to Stanford University Hillel and Stanford’s Student Space Initiative, in November you can send your sins into orbit with an out-of-this-world tashlich ritual

NASA aims to return to Moon by 2024, and has said at least one of the two astronauts who will walk its surface will be a woman

During congratulatory call with President Trump, Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir says 'there have been many others -- female spacewalkers -- before us'

Jessica Meir and Christina Koch step out of International Space Station to fix part of its solar power network