In a recent Twitter exchange, Leland Melvin described seeing 'something organic/alien-like' in the payload bay.
The nine astronauts will be embarking on the first manned launches from American soil since 2011.
Today marks exactly six decades since the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established.
The third rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo provided its pilots with a spectacular view of our planet.
The European Space Agency is offering a prize to the person who manages to come up with the winning name.
A particle that has traveled from deep space could help scientists to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
Back in 2017, Cassini picked up the sounds of plasma waves travelling between Saturn and Enceladus.
Bacteria that mutate during a trip in to space could become a threat to life on Earth, scientists claim.
NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe will be venturing closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history.
As if space junk wasn't already enough of a problem, a war in space could litter the planet's orbit with tons of debris.
The ambitious new space telescope continues to be plagued by a never-ending string of setbacks.
China's Tiangong-2 space station recently spent ten days 95km closer to the Earth than its usual orbit.
This brand new branch of the US military will aim to establish American dominance in outer space.
Space tourism firm Axiom Space is offering people the opportunity to spend ten days aboard the space station.
The words of the much missed astrophysicist will be beamed towards the nearest black hole on Friday.
Following its visit to Pluto back in 2015, the spacecraft has been on its way to Kuiper belt object MU69.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has hinted at having astronauts run around the BFR like in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
It appears as though the space agency's Curiosity rover has discovered something interesting on Mars.
NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemyev demonstrated their football skills ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Russia.