• SpaceX Crew-7 returns after six-month mission on Space Station

    Washington, United States - Four astronauts splashed down off Florida in the Gulf of Mexico on their return to Earth early Tuesday, following a more than six-month mission on the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft landed in the waters off Pensacola at 5:47 am (0947 GMT), with a...
  • US private firm targets moon landing

    Intuitive Machines, the Houston company, hopes to become the first non-government entity to achieve a soft touchdown on the Moon.
  • Private US lunar lander mission imperiled by technical snag

    Washington, United States -- An historic private mission to land on the Moon was facing potential failure Monday due to technical problems, in a blow to America's hopes of placing its first robot on the lunar surface in five decades. Fixed to the top of United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan...
  • Sultan AlNeyadi is back but his mission will continue, says MBRSC

    According to MBRSC, Sultan AlNeyadi will continue his mission in order to benefit from the scientific experiments that he took part in during his six-month long stay on board the International Space Station (ISS). In the morning today, he and his three fellow astronauts splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.
  • UAE evacuates 34 Emiratis from Florida ahead of approaching Hurricane Idalia

    ABU DHABI -- The United Arab Emirates Embassy in Washington, in coordination with representatives of the UAE's officials mission in the United States, has evacuated 34 Emirati nationals residing in Tampa, Florida to safe destinations, as hurricane Idalia arrives ashore the west coast of the state of Florida. Yousef Al...
  • UAE astronaut Al Neyadi’s return to earth delayed

    Dubai, UAE - UAE Astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi's return journey from the International Space Station (ISS) has encountered a delay due to adverse weather conditions. Originally scheduled for September 3, the departure was postponed because of unfavorable weather near the designated splashdown sites off the coast of Florida.  NASA and...
  • Donald Trump indicted for trying to overturn 2020 US election

    The former US president now faces the most serious legal threat yet as he campaigns to return to the White House. Since March it is his third criminal indictment and charges him with three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction and he is already scheduled to go on...
  • Universe’s mysteries in focus as Europe launches Euclid space telescope

    WASHINGTON, US - Europe's Euclid space telescope is scheduled to blast off Saturday on the first-ever mission aiming to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter. The launch is planned from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 11:12 am local time (1512 GMT) on...
  • Saudi astronauts successfully complete space trip

    The spacecraft successfully landed in the Atlantic Ocean, marking the Kingdom's entry into the league of a small number of countries conducting space science missions.
  • UAE Spacecraft captures close-up images of Mars’ little moon

    The findings were presented Monday at the European Geosciences Union's general assembly in Vienna. They challenge the leading theory that Deimos is an asteroid captured in Mars' orbit eons ago. Scientists suggest that the moon may have originated from Mars itself.
  • Trump’s lawyers denounce indictment as ‘political persecution’

    On Sunday, his attorney Joe Tacopina bluntly dismissed the anticipated charges -- related to a hush-money payment to an adult film star in 2016 -- as "some twilight zone sort of scenario" in an "upside down world."
  • UAE Space mission:  Sultan Alneyadi docks at space station

    The crew consists of Alneyadi, NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. 
  • UAE moon rover launch put off, to run more ‘pre-flight checks’

    Dubai, UAE— The UAE’s moon rover launch has been delayed by one day in order to run more pre-flight checks, according to a statement released by SpaceX. Rashid Rover, the Arab world’s first lunar mission, is now scheduled to launch at 8:37 a.m. (GMT) on Thursday, Dec.1, from Cape Canaveral...
  • NASA successfully places Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit

    WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES - NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers "successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant...
  • NASA scraps scheduled Moon launch due to tropical storm

    NASA has called off the scheduled Tuesday launch of its uncrewed mission to the Moon due to a tropical storm that is forecast to strengthen as it approaches Florida. After two previously canceled launch attempts, NASA is weighing returning the Artemis 1 mission rocket to its assembly site under the...
  • Jordan king meets US military officials in Tampa

    The meetings covered means of enhancing military and defense cooperation between Jordan and the United States.
  • Why crypto creators hate being in the public eye

    The two lifelong friends from Florida never sought the limelight, but then they built a multi-million-dollar empire selling digital art and people wanted to know who they were.