NASA astronaut Frank Rubio breaks US record for longest spaceflight

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio now holds the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight. Rubio surpassed the U.S. space endurance record of 355 days on Monday at the International Space Station. He arrived at the outpost last September with two Russians for a routine six months. But their...

India's moon rover completes its walk. Scientists analyzing data looking for signs of frozen water

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole, India’s space mission said. “The rover completes its assignments. It is now safely parked and...

India launches its space mission to study the sun after successfully landing a spacecraft near the moon's south pole

NEW DELHI (AP) — India launches its space mission to study the sun after successfully landing a spacecraft near the moon's south pole.

A failed lunar mission dents Russian pride and reflects deeper problems with Moscow's space industry

An ambitious but failed attempt by Russia to return to the moon after nearly half a century has exposed the massive challenges faced by Moscow's once-proud space program. The destruction of the robotic Luna-25 probe, which crashed onto the surface of the moon over the weekend,...

Russia is back on the lunar path. A rocket blasts off on its first moon mission in nearly 50 years

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft. The launch from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport in the Far East of the...

OceanGate, owner of the submersible that imploded on its voyage to the Titanic, says it's suspending all operations

EVERETT, Washington (AP) — OceanGate, owner of the submersible that imploded on its voyage to the Titanic, says it's suspending all operations.

Italian researchers reach the edge of space flying aboard Virgin Galactic's rocket-powered plane

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A team of Italian researchers reached the edge of space Thursday morning, flying aboard a rocket-powered plane piloted by Virgin Galactic as the space tourism company prepares for monthly commercial flights. The flight launched from Spaceport America in the...

Wife and mother of Titan passengers talks about waiting to hear from the doomed sub

BOSTON (AP) — Christine Dawood was on board a support vessel Sunday when she got word that communications were lost with the submersible carrying her husband and son, to view the Titanic wreckage. She didn't initially understand what it meant that the Titan submersible had lost...

Tourist sub's implosion draws attention to murky regulations of deep-sea expeditions

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — When the Titan submersible made its fateful dive into the North Atlantic on Sunday, it also plunged into the murkily regulated waters of deep-sea exploration. It's a space on the high seas where laws and conventions can be sidestepped by risk-taking...