In 2024, the United States returned a spacecraft to the lunar surface, private astronauts accomplished historic firsts and SpaceX ramped up testing of a vehicle that will prove pivotal in humanity's deep-space exploration ambitions.

From lunar and asteroid missions to groundbreaking human spaceflight tests and new rockets, 2025 promises an array of spectacular space missions.

Several big missions are headed to space to enhance our understanding about planets, asteroids and the deep space.

A large metallic ring from space crash-landed in Kenya on New Year's Day. Officials want to determine its origins and hold the owner accountable.

A huge, red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents cited by the country’s national broadcaster, prompting an immediate investigation by the national space agency.